Looking at the white paper, for the arrangement of the aerospace plan for the next five years, Nie Peng's brows tightened more and more. Except for the mention of deep space lunar exploration, lunar surface collection and return and other missions, such as manned lunar landing, there is no mention of the content.

This made him very disappointed, although he knew that the aerospace project was not an overnight thing, but when he thought that his moon base would have to wait at least until the next five-year plan, it would be possible to see the real human beings flying from the earth, and his heart was very heavy.

It's like being in a room that defies common sense, suspended in the air, this room is out of the foundation, out of gravity, and hangs so abruptly in the air, waiting for the ground to be built layer by layer to dock with it. The house had to rely on thin ropes that hung down, drawing building materials from the ground little by little, and the speed of building was a drop in the bucket, whether it was built upwards or downwards.

"We have to wait at least five years," Nie Peng muttered to himself, and even thought a little weakly, what if the next five-year plan did not mention a manned landing on the moon? Do you have to wait another five years?

This can't be done, we have to find a way to speed up the process, counting on the country to rely on the non-profit lunar exploration project, the progress is always too slow, how can we make him fast?

Thinking of this, Nie Peng couldn't help but think of a person: Elon Musk, the technology maniac who is often talked about as the prototype of Iron Man.

In 2002, Elon Musk spent $100 million to register what is now Space-X, the American SpaceX Corporation. In just six years, it won a formal contract from NASA, which is a significant milestone in the history of international astronautics, and even in October 2012, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft delivered cargo to the International Space Station, opening a new era of private spaceflight.

All this shows that the aerospace field is not unable to open up to the private model, and although there are great technical barriers, the possibility of obtaining state support cannot be ruled out. If an effective business model can indeed be established after research, then the development level of technology will not be too slow.

After all, profit is the driving force behind all actions.

But where do you start? Something related to launching rockets, it's just the monkey that I played with when I was a child, so I can't magnify it in equal proportions. Nie Peng thought as he stared at the screen.

As an important part of a country's national defense science and technology industry, the aerospace industry is a typical comprehensive high-tech industry, and if he can make achievements just by relying on his meditation, then what do scientific research institutes do, and it is more convenient to directly find a group of monks.

After pondering for a long time and being doomed to have no clue, Nie Peng simply opened Baidu and tentatively looked up some information about private aerospace companies.

XCOR, a startup based in Mojave, California.

Founded in 1999, its co-founders were four employees who had been laid off by Rotary-Rocket. The four men launched their business in a room behind a jewelry store in Mojave, and their business plan didn't change much: to build a very reusable orbital spacecraft (the Lynx spacecraft was designed to be capable of four round-trip flights a day), and because the founders weren't billionaires, the company took small steps, each step making the company profitable.

XCOR's main product in the early stage was reusable rocket-propelled vehicles, in fact, like many private American space companies, its main technology came from NASA's transfer, (and at a very low price), and these technologies are no longer at the forefront of NASA's research.

This technology transfer has allowed private companies to bypass the huge funding threshold for basic research and enter the aerospace field.

Another thing to talk about is the order.

NASA has outsourced many of its operations to XCOR, reducing its own costs and supporting XCOR's growth. XCOR relied on orders from NASA to survive the difficult start-up phase.

But the key problem is that this is a company in the United States, and it is easy to enjoy NASA's technology transfer and order preferential treatment.

If Nie Peng set up an aerospace company in China and wanted to get the country's technology transfer, it is estimated that it will not be easier than researching rockets from scratch.

Besides, judging from his current manpower and material resources, this amount of money is enough just for the fuel cost of launching a near-Earth satellite, let alone the development of a moon landing rocket.

This also confirms from the side that for this kind of project, which is often calculated in billions and tens of billions, if it is not for the power of the whole country, private capital will basically not be able to play.

But if you can't play, you have to play, is it possible that more than ten years of hard work have left the base idle on the moon in vain? Although it is a great blessing for mankind to land on the base for both natives and foreigners, as a native of China, I still hope that the first visitors to my moon base will be Chinese-speaking and yellow-skinned Chinese.

Hey, it seems that professional things still have to be done by professional people, otherwise let's send two posts to explore the way.

Just do it, from Zhihu asked a few questions about why private enterprises are rarely involved in aerospace engineering, and after a while, the effort attracted a few gods, and the analysis is not lacking in wonderful strokes, and the head is the way to discuss the current aerospace engineering is the result of the hardships of several generations, and by the way, it points out that the private enterprises are put into production for the purpose of profit, and it is difficult to adapt to this high-risk, low-profit business model.

However, the second question arises: how to run a private space company in a commercial model? There are far fewer people who answer reliably, he sees the end of the post from the beginning of the post, except for taking out a bunch of social problems for Nie Peng to solve, basically there is no answer that can put forward constructive suggestions from the company's point of view.

Think about it, this kind of logically unreasonable question, who would waste brain cells to deduce the possibility?

A little disheartened Nie Peng couldn't help but shake his head, he understood that no one's money was blown by the wind, at least in China, for many investors who have a lot of capital, they don't want to invest a very considerable amount of capital in an industry that takes a long time to start making a profit, or can see profit prospects.

This is like pouring hot money into the real estate and mining markets, and investors can easily grasp the whole process and make an accurate analysis of the situation of the project to reduce the risk. And if he is allowed to put money into the aerospace industry, which has an incalculable result, then if he does not have a big heart, he basically can't stand it.