The major event of the change of equity of TWA Airlines has not attracted much attention among the public. At this time, the Americans were nervously staring at the top of their heads, for fear that the Soviet Union would throw some terrifying weapons on it.

Over the course of the week, the Dow Jones has fallen by 10% of its average. This is a reflection of how panicked the American people are, and how much fear hangs over their heads all the time.

No matter how popular the people were, however, Eisenhower remained indifferent at this time.

In the face of this Soviet satellite, Mr. President of the United States, Mr. Eisenhower looked at the photographs taken by the "Lady Jiaolong" (the famous U2 reconnaissance plane), and with his previous military experience and the lessons of deception, he thought that the matter was not as serious as the advisers said, and he tried to restore the self-confidence of the Americans.

He held a brief press conference and said: "The achievements of the USSR do not cause us apprehension and fear, not at all. ”

"They're just sending a little ball to the sky, and soon they're going to send more."

It's a pity that the American people don't buy his account, they still keep looking up at the sky, they still talk a lot, and they still have a hard time swallowing when eating.

What the president hated the most was that Kennedy's kid jumped up and down, fanning the flames. He fashioned himself as a young man, likening Eisenhower to a rigid old antique, an old rich man in the countryside who knew nothing about high technology.

Kennedy's beautiful trick not only focused the news media on him, but also made him popular and won the hearts of the people.

Except for Kennedy. There is also a guy whose remarks are also remarkable. That was Alex, after he testified in court. Interviewed by reporters.

In the course of the interview, one of the reporters mentioned the launch of a satellite by the Soviet Union. Alex snorted at this.

He said with a look of disdain: "Soon our American rockets will be launched into space, and they will definitely be much stronger than the Soviet Union." The Soviets just threw a small iron ball into space, which was of no use at all, and had no power at all. Even if it falls, it won't kill anyone, and the satellite will burn up in the atmosphere. ”

The reporter listened to this refreshing remark in amazement, and he asked strangely: "Now our US government is not ready to devote itself to space research, and Mr. President has not even made a similar plan." Did you get the news from any source? ”

Alex smiled mysteriously, and said, "I didn't say government secrets, don't scribble!" I'm just saying. Judging by the satellites launched by the USSR, it was a rudimentary and crude thing. It's not high-tech at all! ”

At this time, the news opinions believed that the Soviet Union was one step ahead of the United States, but I didn't expect Alex to belittle the other party's feat so much, so reporters wrote one after another: "American genius Alex thinks that the satellite launched by the Soviet Union is not worth mentioning!" ”

This view is very different from the mainstream view, and has attracted ridicule and rebuke from many people, who think that Alex is young and vigorous, and does not know how to know the sky.

"Who does he think he is? Did the kidnappers break his brain? ”

"Genius? Phew! He's an idiot! The most advanced weapons of the Soviet Union have been able to reach the top of our heads, and he is still disdainful! ”

"This kind of rhetoric also deserves to be published? What a fearlessness it is for the ignorant! ”

All in all, the illusion of a gap in aerospace technology between the United States and the Soviet Union. Blinded the Americans for a while, the American people began to worry about the sky. They have lost their normal judgment, and no matter what others say, they can't dispel the fear in their hearts.

And at the same time. The Soviet Union also realized like an enlightenment: "It turns out that throwing something in the sky can make Americans so afraid!" So much political capital! ”

When Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev saw that the United States was nervous, he was very happy and triumphant. He decided that the Soviet Union had to have something to run in space. So the Soviets stepped up their space investment. Continue to launch rockets and strive to maintain the world's first place in all space records.

Only a month after the Soviet satellite incident. That is, on November 3, 1957, while Eisenhower was still indifferent. The Soviet Union intensified, and the second artificial earth satellite, Sputnik 2, was launched.

Not only did the satellite increase in mass this time, but it also had an unbelievable dog crammed into the satellite.

The poor puppy, named "Leyka", died in space 4 days later. Obviously, it's just an innocent test. The ultimate goal of the Soviet Union in sending puppies into space was to send people into space, which was a challenging idea. In addition, various sources of intelligence suggest that the Soviet Union may also land on the moon and Mars, leaving the United States embarrassed on Earth.

The Soviet Union was the first to launch artificial satellites and the first to launch satellite dogs, which caused the United States, which prides itself as the number one scientific and technological power, to begin to suffer.

At that time, this was a major event that became more and more serious the more I thought about it, so big that it affected the situation in the capitalist world, and it was so big that it was incomprehensible. How can you let a small ball or a dog fly over your head? If this ball or puppy were a nuclear weapon, it would not be an ordinary danger!

For this, White House advisers are increasingly worried. The Soviet Union's superiority in space was aggressive, and it seemed time for President Eisenhower to react.

Subsequent indications also suggest that the Soviet Union is not so simple as fooling, and perhaps the White House advisers are right that the Soviet Union has a more ambitious conspiracy.

Eisenhower, who was a general, finally made up his mind to fight back against the Soviet Union's space superiority. His attitude quickly took a 180-degree turn. He concluded that the Soviet Sputnik incident was the second "Pearl Harbor incident" and not the second fool, and that the United States must launch another "Pacific War" to regain the initiative!

With determination, Eisenhower ordered the US Navy, which was a little famous in the study of "artificial satellites" at that time, to launch an artificial satellite as soon as possible for everyone to see. The White House then made the announcement to the rest of the world, but the U.S. Navy was dumbfounded because they weren't ready.

Hughes sent the lobbyists saw an opportunity, so they ran to tell the president, the congressman, and the U.S. Navy that Interstellar Technology had the ability to launch rocket satellites. Now the only thing is money and so on.

Eisenhower was not interested in this, and the congressmen were skeptical. The US Navy is dismissive of this.

Eisenhower's reaction was: "What I want is to launch the satellite immediately, and if you can't, get out of the way!" ”

The reaction of the lawmakers was: "What? Is Interstellar's rocket and satellite technology more powerful than the government's research department? This ......"

The U.S. Navy's response was more direct: "Phew! Get out of here! Don't get in the way! ”

But the U.S. Navy is also rushing ducks to the shelves. At the urging of the president, they had to launch a satellite of special significance to the United States in the shortest possible time with a small rocket with a thrust of only 3% of the thrust of the Soviet rockets - it weighed 9.8 kilograms in the advertisement, but in fact it was only 1.36 kilograms, like a grapefruit......

Of course, this kind of action did not alleviate the people's worries, and after seeing the news, they said: "People's satellites are much heavier than ours!" ”

"The USSR has been able to send a dog up! What about us? A grapefruit? ”

"The next step for the Soviets is to fly into space! The United States is still at the starting line! ”

The news media also ridiculed the government, arguing that such results proved that the United States was really lagging behind the Soviet Union in rocket technology. It's like two masters meeting each other, and one of them is extremely powerful. It's okay if the other master doesn't do it, but as soon as he does, he finds out that he is a parallel import, and his moves are terrible.

Khrushchev also ridiculed the Americans for being a test jump of fleas, which could not jump into space at all. He also said that American satellites are as small as pebbles and are not worth mentioning at all.

The US Navy's first launch was only a test to test whether its own set of techniques worked, and they were not very confident. But in front of the people, they boasted a lot, making the people think that this time they were really going to make a big deal. To show the USSR ambitions.

Of course, there are also media outlets on the side of the government, who report that the United States is trying to drop an artificial moon into space. Didn't the Soviet Union launch artificial stars, so let's have the moonlight. An American moon.

That's what the U.S. Navy thinks and does. If it does, it will be an opportunity to overtake the Soviet Union. It's a pity it didn't.

On December 6, 1957, the U.S. Navy failed to launch the USS Vanguard. They ignited their rockets in full view of everyone. It turned out to explode like a Chinese "firecracker".

Those present recalled: "After the rocket was launched, it was like the gates of hell opened, and the flying fireworks shot out from the side of the rocket, and the rocket hesitated for a moment, began to tremble, and then it collapsed and exploded in front of our doubts and shocks." ”

The moon did not rise in the United States, and the stars of the Soviet Union still shone in the sky. The news of the failure of the satellite launch soon spread, and people in the whole world knew about the scandalous incident of the United States. They ridiculed and ridiculed, and even the American media followed suit.

The London Herald said: "Oh, a satellite that has fallen violently. ”

The London Daily Express said: "Americans call it the Fault Star. ”

The Louisville Courier said: "A successful launch may be heard by the whole world, but sometimes the duds are louder." ”

The Ottawa Daily said: "According to experts, the rocket did not fly off the ground because it 'lost thrust'. This is the wording to divert attention. Losing thrust is a constant problem for Western democracies. ”

The Denver Post said: "The American people are uneasy, skeptical, and distressed by scientific research in the United States. ”

The New York Herald Tribune said, "Maybe there's a grapefruit or something flying in the sky, and the people of Washington will be quiet." ”

The Paris Magazine said: "Look! There seems to be a worm on the grapefruit. ”

The headline in the Canadian newspaper news that day was "America's 'Moon' Doesn't Work"!

Senator Linden? Johnson lamented, "Oh my God, how long? Oh, how long will it take for us to catch up with the two satellites of the USSR? ”

As for the hated Soviet representatives to the UN, they were beaming, and they asked the United States at the UN "Would you like to accept Soviet assistance?" The Soviet Union had a plan to provide technical assistance to backward countries. ”

"Well! Don't be shy, we Soviets are still very generous! ”

"Maybe the United States really needs some help, otherwise their satellites will never be able to fly out of the atmosphere!"

"Maybe someone's moon is too big to crush a rocket? Ha Lu Ha! ”

Humiliation such as these leaves American leaders, especially the President of the United States, feeling humiliated. At this time, they suddenly remembered the Interstellar Technology Company, and remembered the rocket expert von Bryan who worked hard there. Also reminded of Alex's words in the newspaper, the government began to think about making some kind of change.

However, the influence of the navy is indeed very large, and they failed once, but still received a lot of money from the government. They plan to continue the launch, and they have to occupy this space cake.

In the US armed forces, the navy has always been much more powerful than the army, and there is a great contradiction between the navy and the army. This is a dispute arising from interests and has nothing to do with other issues.

When the naval rocket failed, the Army felt that the opportunity had come, and they wanted to have a launch. Yes, the army also has a rocket research and development department, but the scale is not comparable to that of the navy, and the strength is of course worse. When the upper authorities tried to conduct a launch experiment, the people below had to be busy, and many researchers worked all day and night just to get the rocket into the air before the navy.

However, the head of the army saw the negative impact of the navy's failure, and they were very wise to secretly conduct experiments, and did not even report to the relevant departments, but only regarded it as a routine rocket launch exercise.

As a matter of fact, there are quite a few rocket research institutes in the United States, and only in the military, the navy and the army are engaged in their own rocket research. They each divided the rocket experts captured from Germany, and moved back all the materials and equipment, and then applied to Lu Shang to get a rocket project.

If you have a project, you will naturally have money to allocate it, don't think that corruption is only available at home, and if you are corrupt abroad, you can do it in a proper way. And it's done pretty well, so that no one else can find anything wrong.

Well, the money has been allocated, and as for whether it has been used for rocket research and what has been produced, it is not known. Looking at the rocket research department of the Army, von Bryan was worried about tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Not all of that money was definitely invested in research, and the final destination is unclear, it is a military secret, and no one can find out.

Seeing this situation, the US Air Force also clamored for rockets, but there were no air-to-air rocket missiles at that time, otherwise they would have really been able to get them.

As for other departments, there are many and miscellaneous departments, and not only government agencies are researching this kind of high-tech technology, but even private enterprises are also engaged in it. In particular, those arms dealers' enterprises have government funds and subsidies for doing this, and this kind of money is not taken for nothing. (To be continued......)

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