Xinghai Research Institute, in the reception room.

Wu Yuankang, director of the space agency, rushed over with his assistant and a member of the diplomatic staff.

"Academician Xu, I heard that you have been working on academic problems recently, but is it going well?"

In the reception room, looking at Xu Chuan, who was sitting there flipping through the information, Wu Yuankang stepped forward with a smile, greeted him warmly, and asked with concern.

His enthusiasm is also related to the perfect success of manned spaceflight and lunar landing projects.

After all, whether it is manned space activities, the footprints of Chinese civilization imprinted on that land, and the rescue operation including the two astronauts of NASA in the United States, it is an achievement.

In any case, these works and actions were completed under his leadership. He, the director of the space agency, is not the biggest beneficiary, but also the top one.

What's more, there will be super projects such as the lunar biosphere project and the lunar scientific research outpost base in the follow-up, although the large-scale lunar base project is directly under the National Academy, but after all, it is inseparable from aerospace.

And all of this, for now, depends on the person in front of you.

Xu Chuan shook Wu Yuankang's hand with a smile and said, "It's okay, today's cooperation with the Middle East region is in a lot of trouble for the space agency."

Wu Yuankang nodded with a smile and said, "These are all trivial things, and the work in scientific research is the real trouble."

Xu Chuan smiled, and didn't care about Wu Yuankang's little sycophancy.

At this moment, the door of the reception room was pushed open, and under the guidance of Weng Yunzong and Qin Yue, several middle-aged men with turbans walked in.

When he saw the people standing in the room, the hazel eyes of a middle-aged man with a white turban and a full beard in the line brightened.

"Professor, a couple of representatives from the Middle East have arrived." Walking in front, Qin Yue said softly, and by the way, he introduced a few people in the team behind him and the corresponding countries.

Xu Chuan nodded, stepped forward and stretched out his hand to greet with a smile, "Welcome, Prince Faisal, welcome to your arrival."

On the other side, the middle-aged man standing in the C position of the crowd walked out quickly, enthusiastically stretched out his hand and held it tightly, and greeted, "Hello Professor Xu, may peace be upon you."

For people in the Middle East, many people believe in *** religion, and as soon as they say hello every day, they will bless you or something.

However, when they met for the first time, the middle-aged man representing Saudi Arabia restrained the *** in his words and only expressed his blessings.

Xu Chuan smiled and stretched out his hand to gesture to the chair in the reception room, and said, "Thank you, sit down first, Prince Faisal."

That's right, the core of this Middle East delegation is the middle-aged man in front of him, Faisal ibn Abdul ibn Abdul Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman al-Saud, the prince of the Saudi Arabian state.

The name is very long, the first word Faisal is his real name, followed by the father's name, grandfather's name, place name, etc.

A prince personally came to discuss cooperation, although this inevitably does not contain a little other thoughts, but it is enough to see the importance that the Saudi region attaches to cooperation on the lunar surface.

Prince Faisal smiled and nodded, and took a seat with the team behind him.

After greeting a few words and getting to know the representatives of various countries, Xu Chuan did not delay any longer, and looked at Wu Yuankang, director of the Space Administration, who was sitting on the side.

The people in the Middle East were contacted by him, yes, he originally planned to take the lead in doing this with the Xinghai Research Institute himself.

However, when the latter countries took over and the lunar biosphere project was expanded to the field of international cooperation, the matter of calling representatives from the Middle East and negotiating the lunar project naturally shifted to the space agency and diplomacy.

Wu Yuankang nodded, coughed lightly and said, "Prince Faisal, due to the importance of the cooperation involved in this lunar project, it has been transferred from the Xinghai Research Institute to the G side of China, and the space agency and the diplomatic staff will be responsible for handling it."

Prince Faisal nodded, not paying much attention to this.

In fact, he

Although he was attracted by Xu Chuan's idea of building a resort hotel and a scientific research base on the moon, he wanted to meet this famous young scholar on the one hand, and on the other hand, he wanted to establish some cooperation with Huaguo.

Now that the lunar engineering project has been transferred to the China Space Agency and diplomacy, it is better for them.

Although Huaguo has developed controlled nuclear fusion, breaking their advantage of lying down and making money, they should have wanted to kill each other.

But the world is impermanent, and if you want to get rid of the control of the United States, you can only rely on them, and other countries do not have this ability.

The Middle East, too, has its own ideas.

After all, with the advent of controlled nuclear fusion, crude oil is no longer as valuable as it used to be, and while the Middle East is still wealthy, the days of lying at home and counting money are a thing of the past.

In addition, in this era of drastic changes in the international landscape, the Middle East also wants to get rid of the control of the United States and become more independent and independent.

It may be a better choice to expand cooperation with China and climb into this increasingly powerful red country.

This is the reason why he personally led the team here this time, to test the view here and see if there is any hope.

.......

In the reception room, Wu Yuankang and the personnel on the diplomatic side and the representatives of the Middle East discussed the matters of cooperation on the lunar surface.

「...... How about the cooperation on the lunar biosphere project, which has been finalized for the time being, and then the detailed work of docking will be carried out in the future?"

With a smile on his face, Wu Yuankang preliminarily finalized the cooperation plan for the lunar biosphere project.

I have to say that this time they did make a lot of money, these big families in Saudi Arabia are really rich, a lunar biosphere project, Saudi Arabia alone has contributed 3.5 billion, or rice gold.

Combined, the countries of the rest of the Middle East have invested a full 7 billion meters.

If you follow the current exchange rate of about 1:4.5 between Mijin and Soft Sister Coin, it is almost 31.5 billion Soft Sister Coin.

The planning of the lunar biosphere project is 200 billion, according to this calculation, the Middle East alone has made up one-seventh of it.

As for the cost, it is to occupy the position of 10 scientific researchers in the lunar biosphere project, and Huaguo is responsible for transporting their personnel.

And this transportation is not all free, in the negotiation, they preliminarily finalized the annual transportation quota, that is, how many people and how many materials will be transported by Xinghai Research Institute for free in a year.

Beyond this limit, the Middle East will need to pay additional costs if it needs to transport people or supplies up.

Sitting on the sofa, Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia nodded and said, "We are sincerely involved in the lunar biosphere project, but we are ......"

After a slight pause, he looked at Xu Chuan and said, "On this basis, I have another request."

Although he didn't understand why the other party suddenly turned to him, Xu Chuan still smiled and motioned to the other party to speak, "Prince, please speak."

Prince Faisal smiled and said, "I heard that Professor Xu's research and development of the Xinghai space shuttle does not require high requirements for astronauts in the process of manned spaceflight, and even ordinary people can take it without training, right?"

Xu Chuan glanced at him, nodded and replied, "Compared with traditional chemical fuel launch vehicles, Xinghai needs to spend more time climbing gravity wells in the process of manned spaceflight. Therefore, the acceleration it develops during the voyage is not very high, and it is not usually more than 3 Gs."

"So theoretically, ordinary people without professional training can indeed fly it to outer space."

Although he didn't know exactly why the other party asked this, Xu Chuan still explained it simply.

The space shuttle Xinghai does have the conditions to fly ordinary people who have not been trained, and even the comfort can catch up with traditional civil airliners in most cases.

On the other side, the corners of Prince Faisal's mouth rose and he said with a smile, "Don't hide it from Professor Xu, I'm here to achieve."

Before the next lunar biosphere project cooperation, we wanted to take the space shuttle Xinghai into space for a trip."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment, and looked at Prince Faisal with some surprise.

He really didn't expect that.

After all, space travel is considered by far a 'quite' risky thing to do in the eyes of most people, and it's very dangerous.

In fact, as early as the last century, when the Misu competition first succeeded in manned spaceflight, there were people who put forward ideas or plans for space travel or even deep space travel.

And in the 21st century, in 2001, many companies with the concept of space travel sprung up.

For example, Elon Musk's SpaceX, the windmill country's space travel company, and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space exploration company are all committed to reducing the price of space travel and realizing the dream of space travel for ordinary people.

Even some companies, not only have concepts, they are already doing it themselves.

For example, Virgin Galactic Space Expeditions, they have a spacecraft for carrying space tourists, called "SpaceShip2", which is planned to carry six passengers.

Visitors will first train at the Mojave Cosmodrome in the Mojave Desert in California, before flying through space in a unique spacecraft.

When the spacecraft rises to an altitude of 15 kilometers, the mother ship "White Knight 2" will launch the manned spacecraft "SpaceShip2" carrying the travelers, which will then rise to an altitude of 110 kilometers and fold its wings to circle the Earth.

In this orbit, travelers will be able to feel weightlessness for about 6 minutes and get a bird's-eye view of the Earth over the dark universe.

But to this day, this is still a plan, and it has not been implemented.

And space travel is still a concept, and no company can send ordinary tourists into space, which shows that its risk and safety are still a task that cannot be fully controlled.

In this case, it has to be said that Prince Faisal's request was indeed unexpected by everyone.

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pS: Make up for yesterday's update, yesterday's Lantern Festival was temporarily busy with some things, and I didn't have time to send the leave note, sorry.

Another: There is a chapter of today's update later, and by the way, ask for a monthly pass