On June 7, NASA announced that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) had identified four sites suitable for manned landings, rich in resources, and with water in the form of ice.

The LRO is an old object, launched in 2009, when it was designed to assist a manned landing on the moon, and has been in operation for 7 years now, and is in good condition.

Meanwhile, Aramco Westminster, Maxar, said that the development of a 60KW electrically propulsion spacecraft for the Lunar "Gateway" International Space Station has officially begun.

The Artemis Project was originally a collaborative project between Europe and the island nation after NACA's research capacity was lost, saving money and reducing its own burden.

But last year, Congress directly added $60 billion to the Artemis program, and other related projects totaled $40 billion.

In fiscal 2016, NASA was approved $40.1 billion.

With the huge amount of money, NASA can calmly expand again, supporting a large number of subordinate supporting enterprises like the Apollo program, and this year's Aramco economic growth is said to hit a 15-year high.

Of course, the technology has not fallen behind, and the BE-7 engine with a thrust of 12 tons prepared by Blue Origin for the "Blue Moon" lander has completed the prototype trial production and is about to be tested.

However, the BE-4 heavy-duty liquid oxygen methane engine was still a bit difficult to deliver, and Blue Origin engineers were going to conduct a test run in May, but it was abruptly stopped and pulled back to the factory for modification.

However, the basic parameters of the first-generation Raptor have been announced, which are a 180-ton liquid oxygen methane engine with full-flow combustion, and the Starship SN-1 will be tested as a pressure test prototype ship in October.

Lao Ma's ultimate PPT is still here, in his propaganda, starships of different sizes will be able to carry out landing on the moon, Mars, large-scale migration missions, and can also fly in the atmosphere, and can reach the world within two hours in the form of ballistic missiles.

To the outside world, Starship and the H2 nuclear-powered space shuttle that Xinyuan has announced seem to be two different directions.

One is the old-school route, traditional and advanced, nuclear-powered, long-distance, in line with the imagination of the future;

One is the Stainless Steel Cult, which is so thick and bulky that it looks difficult to fly.

Of course, this is all because Xinyuan still hides a lot of information, and even the advance space station is only known in a small area, and a little information leaked out is also considered to be a super PPT pie.

When the XN90 spaceship comes out, I'm afraid people will wonder if they suddenly traveled into a science fiction movie and saw a spaceship that only exists in film and television dramas.

I just don't know if the blonde old man was yelling "tear it down" at that time.

The situation in China is similar, Xinyuan and the Space Agency directly hundreds of billions of yuan, supporting at least one trillion yuan of industrial scale.

This year, there are 9 private aerospace companies (except Xinyuan) that have joined the Aviation Development Commission, which has reached the level of 10 years later.

Among them, Huizhou's Galaxy Power has announced its own small solid rocket, which is expected to make its first flight early next year.

It's just that although these private companies have also obtained a lot of capital and technical support with the trend, their development is far less exaggerated than Xinyuan, and they can't even catch up with the speed of copying PPT.

June 12, B-class base.

More than 110 people from all walks of life from the four member countries of the Sheila space station stood happily beside the runway, and Arbor National Television was specially allowed to enter the venue for filming.

At the end of the runway, the nose of the An-1250 was raised, like a giant beast opening its mouth, and it was swallowing a disassembled Xinyuan-2 little by little in order.

A heavy rocket with a take-off weight of 1300 tons, the cargo compartment of the An-1250 can be swallowed intact from the first-stage engine to the spiky cone fairing,

Originally, it could have been shipped with the Il-76, but Abel specifically requested the use of the An-1250 and did not pay up to $500,000 in freight for this shipment.

Of course, not only the rocket, but also the senior personnel of the four national space agencies and 13 respected clergy will escort this rocket together.

Since the space shuttle Mecca is also on the back, the An-1250 will launch all the components of the Arbor manned launch at once, and only the fifth module of the Sheila space station will be transported by the Il-76 alone, because the anchor points on the back of the plane are occupied.

At 11 a.m., with the rocket and the shuttle already secured, Prince Sweetan stood in front of the wide-open nose and gazed in fascination at the beautiful green verses on the surface of the rocket.

Ah Bo specially hired two artists from Yemen who they thought were the best, and used the paint provided by Xinyuan to write the Quran on the entire rocket.

The two painters worked tirelessly, prayed for blessings before writing the scriptures, and tossed for more than half a month to complete what can be called the world's most complex rocket painting.

But it has to be said that it is really exquisite, and most of these specially made pigments will disappear in the heat of the violent friction of the atmosphere during recycling, leaving only a few words that have been specially strengthened and spelled together as a miracle.

Surrounded by a group of white turban brothers, Prince Switan handed over the memorandum of the escort handover plan on behalf of the Abel Air Force, which also means that at least from this moment on, the rockets and space shuttles belonging to Abel will really be erected in Aber.

Next to Lin Ju, leaders from the Space Administration and the Western Military Region responded.

Then the mouth of the An 1250 behemoth slowly closed, and the upper and lower hatches of the personnel connecting the elevator passage opened.

Prince Switan and other high-level officials from the National Space Agency will fly together at random and finally land at the airport in Arbor's capital, Riyadh.

The total flight time is 9 hours, during which a total of 32 people, including 6 crew rotations, 4 support personnel, and 8 Xinyuan engineers, will arrive together.

As for why you didn't see Crown Prince Hamander?

The old king, Alert, had been critically ill since last month, and Hamand had to fly back urgently, ready to take over the reins.

Although it may be a bit rebellious, Lin Ju always thought that this might be a good thing for Prince Hamander, so that no one would stop him from going to heaven.

But King Arbor is going to space? Hiss...... It sounds exciting.

In the waiting area behind the An-1250, Xinyuan's business jet ARJ21 has also begun to load personnel, and it will return with more than 20 remaining Abel personnel, but it will have to stop to refuel on the way.

At 11:40 p.m., the air traffic control indicated that it could take off, and the An-1250 took off from the runway with a belly of spacecraft and dignitaries from several countries.

For this flight, the An-1250 was filled with 400 tons of fuel, and the take-off mass reached 1020 tons.

Aircraft B4143 took off with Abel's space dream.

Nine hours later, it was only three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and at the peak of the sunshine, more than 20,000 people would pour into Riyadh Airport to hold a grand welcome ceremony for B4143.

(End of chapter)