After sending Hamand and Switan out of the door with expressions of three points of helplessness, three points of gratitude, three points of hesitation, and one point of hesitation, Lin Ju and Androv glanced at each other, and their bodies continued to tremble and let out a terrifying laugh.

Moon landing + second person + near-ground pick-up from Mecca, a total of 13 billion US dollars, 200% progress in solving the funding gap.

There are still some projects that Abel doesn't dare to buy now, but after the successful moon landing, Anderov still doesn't believe that he can't pay for it.

Taking off from Mecca from Abermukla, docking to land on the moon, and then returning from low Earth orbit from Mecca, this is what Switan and Hamand promised that the old king would 100% approve of.

Because this is too much to increase the face of Abo, even if it costs 79.8 billion yuan, it is still considered completely worth it.

When Anderov said the price of a person, he only raised a finger in order to leave room for himself, and spat out the words "ten billion".

He wanted to shout the dollar, but he was afraid that this price would scare people away and simply omit the currency, but he didn't expect Hamand's eyes to light up immediately: "Ten billion dollars? ”

The first moon landing, as long as $10 billion?!

Lin Ju was almost suffocated by the oil of the dog, and he couldn't breathe smoothly.

I just don't know what the space agency thinks, whatever, I'll talk about it when the money is in hand.

……

On September 17, the full-seated Unity was erected on top of Xinyuan-2, which was already being reused for the fourth time, waiting to be lifted off.

Deng Lei, who went to space for the third time, seemed to be at ease, while easily checking the electrical equipment, and had the energy to joke with the five crew members from time to time.

Astronauts from five different countries sat in the crew compartment, looking out the window with enjoyment at the blue sky and white clouds, while saying that "this is the real space flight".

At 12 o'clock, the International Space Station had already passed Kazakhstan, and Xinyuan-2 ignited to carry out the second manned mission of Unity.

At 13:55 p.m., after more than a lap of pursuit, Unity successfully caught up with the ISS and carefully docked with the "Harmony" node module.

The modified roof hatch opened, and the five ISS astronauts left in turn, and then the four returnees climbed in and fastened their seat belts with the help of Deng Lei.

During this process, Deng Lei briefly entered the Harmony node module at the warm invitation of the ISS astronauts and took a bunch of photos as evidence of the Chinese people's visit to ISS.

When Deng Lei was ready to leave and return to the atmosphere more than an hour later, the ISS astronauts took the last photo of Deng Lei carelessly adjusting the route before the docking module was closed, which looked like the Didi taxi you called and the driver confirmed the route.

These photos and Deng Lei returned to Earth almost at the same time, this time Deng Lei landed and didn't even eat noodles, meaning that he quickly left to meet the matchmaker, just like a staff member who had just left in a hurry after work.

The other four ISS astronauts left on their own planes, and they were not Chinese astronauts, and their exposure was not high, so everything seemed so ordinary.

But for the space agency, Lin Ju is doing things again.

Arbor deposited $6.5 billion into his overseas remittance management account to China, purportedly as a deposit for the cost of the moon landing project.

Nasa:???

Foreign ministry:???

At this time, they found out that Xinyuan and Abel Space Agency signed an agreement in a low-key manner that day, and did not even disclose the amount, only saying that Abor would jointly carry out lunar development work with Xinyuan Aerospace Power.

When asked Xinyuan, the answer was a trade secret and no comment.

Lunar development? What is the $6.5 billion deposit for lunar development? Are you going to the moon to dig helium three?

The bigwigs of the space agency are full of question marks, but they can't ask the results.

Their intuition told them that something terrible must have happened, and they hurriedly used special channels to get some inside information, and then they were all numb.

The moon landing before 2020, and the lunar research station, how does it sound familiar?

But you're just a private space company, hey, don't be so radical, and you're all starting to sell tickets!

But about such a big matter, the superiors attached great importance to it, and directly called the space bureau over and asked: Is it possible for Xinyuan Aerospace Power to land on the moon? Is it braggart or is it true?

Experts from the Space Administration and the Academy of Engineering came to the scene to analyze the strength of Xinyuan Aerospace Power, listed them one by one, and then found that it seemed to be really possible.

Since a small space shuttle can be built, then the spacecraft to the moon will naturally be fine, and the landing and ascent will not be a big problem.

The most important thing is a giant rocket that can land on the moon, and they estimate that Xinyuan has the capacity to produce two Xinyuan-2 in about half a year, and this number may be four after expansion.

Xinyuan-2 can easily use the CBC configuration to produce Xinyuan-2A, with a low-earth orbit capacity of 135 tons, and it is easy to land on the moon.

In other words, three core-level Xinyuan No. 1 armor can produce at least 4 pieces in three years, which is enough even for one-time use.

a rocket test, a landing spacecraft space test, a manned flight around the moon, and a moon landing;

If you add the time for test flights and preparation of the large space shuttle, there will be several more launch missions, but not for long.

What's more, Xinyuan No. 2 A is reusable!

According to their speculation, counting the R&D and deployment time of relevant landers and supporting facilities, if Xinyuan Aerospace Power really wants to go to the moon, it will almost use up 20 billion funds, which will take more than three years.

20 billion sounds like a lot, but when converted into US dollars, it is 3.2 billion, and Abel has sent a deposit of 6.5 billion US dollars, which is obviously almost no problem in terms of funds.

After a group of experts announced this result in front of their superiors, the whole scene froze at once.

According to Huaguo's timetable, the manned landing on the moon will probably be completed from 2025 to 2030, not to mention the development of the rocket used to land on the moon, not even the design!

The expression of the superior, which had not changed for thousands of years, began to freeze like an iceberg, and it took a long time before he asked with a hint of luck: "Landing on the moon is a very expensive thing, why is a private company so keen on space exploration?" Did they really go back? Which Space X company doesn't have one? ”

Big guy: "I may have a little guess at this point, Lin Ju is very young, so he has the sharpness of a young man, and now he has obtained a large amount of money and strength, he will definitely go, maybe at this time he thinks that going to the moon is more important than making more money."

Moreover...... He was also very supportive of our national projects, and the cost of undertaking the assignment was very favorable. ”

"That is, they probably won't push the plan back a bit?"

"Unless it's technical, I think so."

There was silence for a while, and then the voice of the superior came:

"Sharp, sharp, have we also been in obscurity for too long, in fact, we have forgotten that we are relying on a sharp spirit to rampage out of a peaceful sky surrounded by foreign powers?

Academician She, the space agency, can you find a way to land on the moon in three years? If you only ask to send people to the surface of the moon. ”

The experts present understood the potential meaning of this sentence, and the government's view on the moon landing in the past was: If you have money and strength, you will naturally do it, and if you want to do it, you should not make a face-saving project, and you will have a whole big and good scientific research station at a time.

And now that the thinking of the superiors has obviously changed slightly, it may be necessary to fight for this face, and it is the most time-consuming to save face and lining.

This can't rely on private spaceflight, if it can rely on private companies to carry people to the moon, the space agency will simply disband the calculation.

This was not only the idea of the superiors, but also said it directly, which made the experts present bow their heads for a while.

"Xinyuan Aerospace Power Company has not been established for a long time, but it has made a lot of achievements, even if it is a large enterprise in China.

For this year's manned program, their rocket took less than a year, but how long did it take for the Long March 5 to be successful from project approval? Of course, it's true that they are much more adequately funded through commercial means, but wouldn't it be better if we also gave the same financial support, with the power of the space agency and the country as a whole?

As recently as the August rescue mission, they showed technical prowess that seemed to me to surpass that of the space agency. ”

The superiors were not polite, first the recyclable rocket, then the heavy rocket, the space shuttle, etc., all of which are projects that the space agency needs to spend a lot of effort to complete.

Xinyuan's successive successes in a year, and as a private enterprise, led to some distrust of the space bureau and began to doubt whether the development route of the space bureau was wrong, so the Aviation Development Committee was established.

Space Race Hara less!

(End of chapter)