Chapter Eighty-Nine: Orion

"When it comes to setting up a company, I suggest taking a break," said Di Zhexiao while frying the steak with Nie Peng, who was cooking pasta next to him, and the two were in the kitchen at the moment, busy with a not very decent Western meal.

"After all, our current office location is unstable, the liquidity is too high, and the risk is great. But when the news of Ah Si Likang comes out and the investment is profitable, our situation will improve a lot. Daddy Di shook the frying pan, and the steak jumped, turned over, and fell into the pan.

"I'll listen to you." Nie Peng served the pasta on the plate with condiments: "How did you talk to Su Gong yesterday afternoon?" ”

"It's okay, this kid has a really good head, but how to say it, it's basically all about work, not the kind of person who intrigues and has a honey-bellied sword." Di Zhexiao tasted the black pepper sauce, and his mouth was salty.

"Well, it's really smart, and when I ask him questions, I always feel like my brain is half a circle slow." Nie Peng expressed his deep agreement, at least for now, almost all of the equipment problems encountered in his laboratory were solved by Su Province, regardless of whether it was German equipment or English equipment, people could fiddle with it in dozens of minutes, and there was no attitude at all after the event, as if they had dredged a sewer.

"It can be seen that he really loves this industry, he invited their family to dinner last night, and saw that his daughter-in-law is also a person who keeps to herself, taking care of the children at home, and doing literature translation at the same time. What a simple family, it's the character of Su Province, it's really stubborn. You can think about it, if someone like him decides something, it's not easy to pull it back. Di Zhexiao finally adjusted the saltiness of the sauce and motioned for Nie Peng to taste it.

Looking at the slimy black pepper juice, there was no feeling of hanging pulp at all, Nie Peng tried it without embarrassment, and finally understood where Jiaying's terrifying cooking skills came from.

"Uncle Di, mix some glutinous rice flour again, it's too thin, besides, how much black pepper did you put in it, it's too spicy." Nie Peng was speechless and brought the pasta to the table, Jiaying's mother still had work to do, and she didn't come back with her father when she went to Hong Kong, so three pairs of knives and forks were enough.

"Huh? It's a little spicy.,Or you might as well.,I'm really not good at this.。 Di Zhexiao, who wanted to show his hand, had no choice but to abdicate and leave the position of chef to Nie Peng. I wiped my hands and took the PAD to check the news of the day, and his perennial investment banking work has made him develop such a habit, and it is not easy to change.

He watched the news here, and Nie Peng remixed the sauce, and after a while, it overflowed with a rich aroma, causing Jiaying to run over from the sofa, lying on the door and looking inside.

Steak spaghetti salad, can be regarded as the simplest standard of Western food, after Nie Peng's deployment, the three of them also ate with relish, chatting about the future operation mode with red wine, and unconsciously went out for more than an hour, looked at the time, and it was time to go home, Nie Peng and Jiaying packed up the dishes and chopsticks to the kitchen, and wanted to take advantage of the kung fu that Dad didn't pay attention to, to have a ** or something, but they listened to Di's father calling outside.

"Nie Peng, come and take a look at this."

Jiaying, who was distracted, followed Nie Peng sullenly and walked to the sofa together.

Nie Peng took the PAD handed over by Di's father, and after taking a look, he felt that something was wrong, and his brows furrowed.

The website of the New York Times published a report entitled "NASA Hopes to Speed Up the Timetable for Sending Astronauts into Deep Space" on February 15 that NASA today made public for the first time the government's vision for space exploration and announced that it would consider carrying astronauts on the first flight of the agency's new heavy rocket.

Just this title contains too much content, Nie Peng continued to look down.

Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot said the agency is studying the possibility of carrying astronauts on the first flight of a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

According to current plans, the first launch mission will take place in the second half of 2018, and there are no plans to schedule astronauts to test the system on the rocket and the spacecraft named Orion. The manned program is scheduled for a second mission in a few years, and the second mission will start no earlier than 2021.

According to current plans, during the first launch mission, the unmanned Orion spacecraft will fly to the moon and orbit 40,000 miles (about 64,000 kilometers) above the lunar surface, for the entire mission to last for three weeks. If this were a manned mission, it would likely be shortened, possibly similar to the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968, when three NASA astronauts circled the moon 10 times in 20 hours before returning to Earth. ”

"This !!!" Seeing this, Nie Peng and Jia Ying suddenly felt terrified, and the Americans suddenly pointed the finger at the moon, if they said that they had no target, they would not believe it if they killed both of them. But what can be photographed when orbiting the moon at a distance of only 64,000 kilometers?

In particular, the news is ambiguous, and the specific task cycle is divided into two categories: unmanned and manned, and it is impossible to distinguish between fiction and reality.

"What are they going to do?" Nie Peng's mind spun rapidly, thinking about NASA's intentions, no, to be exact, thinking about the intentions of Trump's team. Di's father directly dialed the phone to Su Province and asked him if there was a plan to explore the moon in the near future in NASA's space arrangement.

As a former member of the space system, he is actually very sensitive to this kind of news, and he has already studied the English version of the "New York Times" for half a day in Soviet Province, and soon gave an answer.

"It should be a long-term systematic mission, and if this kind of non-manned spacecraft is to carry out a manned space mission, a lot of work needs to be carried out, and the layout needs to be re-planned. For example, life support systems. I just checked the specific public notice, this mission is called the EM-1 program, and the rocket used is the upper stage of the "Delta"-4 rocket that has not been evaluated for manned missions. This doesn't make sense in theory. ”

Turn on the hands-free mobile phone and put it on the coffee table, and several people with a clear voice can hear it clearly, Di's father then asked, "Why can't it be explained, can you explain it?" ”

"It's risky, like the Apollo program in the 50s, NASA carried out too many unmanned missions before the Apollo 7 manned mission. Boeing and SpaceX also conducted unmanned test flights before delivering astronauts to the International Space Station. This is an internationally accepted test method, after all, no one can guarantee that a new rocket will be safe in the sky when it is launched for the first time. ”