SpaceX's first rocket is now standing quietly.

The main body is red with black letters and white patterns, and the American flag and the "SpaceX" logo are also essential.

Sixty-eight meters high, equivalent to the height of a twenty-two story building, weighing more than 530 tons, ready to break free from the shackles of this blue planet at any time, to fly into space, sports cars, airplanes and other cutting-edge products of human science and technology, are not as cool as this rocket!

Knowing that Han Xuan would come today, Elon Musk led SpaceX's scientists, design engineers, welders, mechanics and other employees to greet him, more than a thousand people, and the entire company even swept the floor, and they all contributed to the development of the Orion-1 rocket.

Since the founding of SpaceX, Han Xuan has not even personally visited the research center located not far from Vandenberg Air Force Base, these people know who they are working for, but many people have never seen Han Xuan in person, and at this moment they warmly applaud and welcome him.

Facing these people, Han Xuan also smiled and waved his hand, and shouted loudly: "Thank you!" ”

The applause was so warm that many employees didn't hear what he said, and they could tell it by lip service, and they were laughing along, the world's first privately funded rocket, this honor was enough to make them proud......

In this life, Han Xuan was born during the Cold War.

At that time, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was quite terrifying, and American scientists even had some crazy ideas, such as building a military base on the far side of the moon, building a heavyweight nuclear bomb to bomb the moon, and so on.

He was still in that crazy period as a child, and between 1983 and 1986, the space shuttle Challenger made a total of ten missions, and it was the tenth time that an accidental explosion occurred.

Therefore, the memories of the first few years after Han Xuan's rebirth are always associated with space, thanks to the progress of human science and technology, people seem to have got the key to open a new world, and they can't wait to explore space again and again, trying to develop its value.

During each live broadcast, the cowboys of Old Barton and Old John had to sit in front of the TV to watch, and they didn't even care about the cattle and sheep, which left a deep impression on Han Xuan.

In the night sky of Montana, the dense stars always make him curious, and the seeds of wanting to explore space were actually planted as early as a child.

The Apollo moon landing program took place in the earlier 70s, and it was very doubtful that it was real, but Han Xuan has recently begun to believe that it is real, because he heard that NASA has more than 10,000 photos taken on the moon that year.

Even if it is fake, it can be regarded as a lot of hard work, a few photos are easy to fake, and more than 10,000 seem unlikely.

During his time at Brown University, Han met with an eclectic group of space enthusiasts from the Mars Association who planned to do an experiment to send rats into orbit around the Earth and reproduce on Mars.

Later, they received a check with a denomination of 50,000 US dollars from Han Xuan, who was not interested in sending mice to Mars, he wanted to send humans to Mars.

Elon Musk went to Han Xuan a few years ago, just to induce him to enter the rocket manufacturing industry in advance, if this guy didn't appear, maybe one day Han Xuan himself will have the idea of rockets, you must know that in the second decade of the 21st century, many technology tycoons are gearing up, trying to compete for the reputation of the first "successful sending people to Mars", and there have always been many people staring at Mars.

He is already preparing for landing on Mars, if this launch is successful, there will be a launch every three months, and it is planned to launch within three years, or even once a month.

The space industry has a theory: if a company can dramatically reduce the cost of each launch and launch it regularly, it will open up a whole new market for payloads for commercial and scientific use, and continue to make a lot of money from them.

Of the hundreds of millions of dollars invested before, only about 130 million were actually used for this rocket, and the rest was used to build factories and invest in research and development.

According to Han Xuan's idea, in the future, it is necessary to be able to independently produce at least 90 percent of the parts of a rocket, which can greatly reduce the launch cost and improve market competitiveness.

The "Maritime Recovery Program for the First Stage Rocket" will be the next stage of SpaceX's goal, and if it can successfully master the technology of recovering the first stage rocket, it can reduce the cost of each launch by 30%!

At that time, there is no country in the world that will have a lower rocket launch cost than SpaceX, considering the increasing use of satellites, but the life span is very short, there is a huge market every year, and there will be no money to be made at that time......

At this time, the middle-aged man who came with Musk, his name is Michael Griffin, after he had a falling out with Musk in his previous life, he became the director of NASA, and no one in the world knows better than him how to send objects into space.

Musk is usually only responsible for specific management, and it is Michael Griffin who is really responsible for R&D, and Han Xuan also walked to them, stretched out his hand to Mr. Griffin, greeted him with a smile on his face and said, "Hello, I haven't seen you for a long time, Mr. Griffin."

I remember the last time I saw you, it was at the annual meeting of the Snow Mountain Group the year before last, and now Orion No. 1 has been built, it is like a dream, thanks to your efforts. ”

"Thank you, it's mostly your credit, I've never met an investor as generous and savvy as you.

By the time the next rocket is launched, almost 60 percent of the parts will be produced by our company, which will reduce the cost by about 10 percent.

In addition, their production speed was so slow that they wasted three and a half months. ”

Michael Griffin's face was annoyed, he had seen rockets all day, but he couldn't launch them, and he was about to get sick recently.

Elon Musk is nervous and excited today, unlike Han Xuan, who only cares about spending money and investing, this rocket has poured too much effort into him, and told at the moment: "The launch time is set at about one o'clock, and the weather conditions are good now."

Boeing and Lockheed Martin will be conducting several missions here in the near future worth about a billion dollars, and if it weren't for your name, maybe we wouldn't have been able to launch until April......"

"We should build a launch site ourselves.

You can find out if there is a suitable island, or buy your own Sea Launch Platform, which will be more convenient later. ”

Han Xuan understood the deep meaning of Musk's words, this guy has long been obsessed with buying a sea launch platform, and he doesn't care and said, others will be forced to die by money, he won't .......