In the footage of the TV crew, Yun Hongjun, the chief commander of the Long March 10, looks a little thin, with thick eyelids under his two eyes, all of which show how crazy he has been working in the past few months.

How long did it take to design the foundation of the Long March 10? 1 minute, this is the time that Academician She said when he recalled.

The issues that have been pending and debated for decades have finally taken only one minute to determine the basic configuration.

When the Dawning plan was approved, the Long March 10 team was quickly formed, and the specific design was immediately carried out, and seven or eight people were brought from the Long 5 team to apply the design experience of the Long March 5 to complete the overall design of the Long March 10 as quickly as possible.

Then get the specific size of the Jingu rocket manufacturing base began to produce the rocket body, the Sixth Academy desperately engaged in YF130, but also to improve the YF77 vacuum version, YF75D and so on.

The rocket body is also under great pressure, first of all, the 5-meter diameter arrow body to make a rocket with a gravity of 3600 tons means that there will be a strength problem, and the bundle of four thousand-ton boosters also needs to develop a separation mechanism from scratch.

There are countless troubles encountered in this regard, and the four on-site visits by the leaders from above are enough to show the anxious attitude of the superiors.

In 10 months, in less than a year, the space agency created a miracle in the history of aerospace at a speed that it never imagined, and built a giant rocket enough to land on the moon in the shortest time.

No matter what the configuration potential of the Long March 10 is, no matter how much money is invested in it, it cannot erase the great contribution of the Long March 10 team, and they are destined to become legends.

Yun Hongjun, the first flight of the Long March 10, had to follow him personally, and he was afraid that there would be any accident on this rocket carrying the dream of landing on the moon, so he simply followed the transfer ship to Qiongzhou, and he had to look at 7 ultra-long containers every day to feel at ease.

In the face of the reporter's interview, although he said some fixed clichés, people can feel the majestic power in his thin figure.

In the last picture of the news on this day, Yun Hongjun said indifferently to the camera:

"On behalf of the Long March 10 development team, I guarantee that the launch of the Long March 10 will proceed smoothly as scheduled, and the Dawning Project will carry our astronauts to the moon safely and return safely with its original purpose!"

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There are many shipping routes from Jingu to Qiongzhou, and the Yuanwang rocket carrier will not transfer all the way to the port, and it only takes 4 days to reach the port, and then it takes no more than 10 days to complete the unloading, final assembly and inspection, and can be launched on August 12 at the earliest, and August 15 at the latest.

It was suggested that the An-1250 should be rented in 48 hours after two flights, and that it would be much faster to get from the Xinyuan Space Launch Site to the Qiongzhou Space Launch Center, but it was rejected on the grounds of safety.

However, the timeliness of shipping is not slow, it is much better than several inland launch sites, and it is indeed stable.

Unlike Xinyuan, the only viable waterway route that needs to pass through the congested Yangtze River waterway, this section of the road is cumbersome and risky, and it is forced to develop air transportation.

On August 5, seven containers were transported by transfer vehicles to the No. 1 station of the Qiongzhou launch site.

This launch station, which has accommodated the Xinyuan 1 series, Xinyuan 2, Xinyuan 2A, and Xinyuan 3, finally ushered in its own rocket.

In order to celebrate this point, the Qiongzhou Launch Administration specially held a welcome ceremony for the convoy transporting the Long March 10.

Since the arrival of the Long March 10 in Qiongzhou, CCAV has reported on this giant rocket once a day, and netizens across the country have also discussed it on a large scale.

Similarly, the Long March 10 has also reached a very high level of popularity in foreign media.

On August 1, CNN's headline was a simple one:

"Long March 10 will arrive at Wenchang launch site."

CBS is more blunt: "CASA is about to win the race to the moon."

This is a stark representation of Aramco's current attitude towards Long March 10, no matter how great what NACA has done, and no matter how much Artemis has gathered the best of many countries and has a total of 100 billion US dollars, it is in fact lagging behind.

The SLS rocket has not yet been assembled, and after that, there will be rocket body tests, launch pad modifications, etc., and the Kennedy Space Center spent $1.6 billion on the launch pad alone.

The moment the Long March 10 appeared, both NACA and Congress exploded.

Early in the morning, Claire was dragged to Congress, and the senator got straight to the point:

How long will it take for the SLS Rocket to debut?

Claire is also scratching her head at this time, the Dawning plan has just been announced last year, and he has also seen the plan for the Long March 10, and he is completely unconvinced of the space agency's goal of launching in August this year.

He does not know the specific progress of the Long March 5, which means that in NACA's opinion, the Long March 10 is completely new in terms of rocket body, engine and overall structure, and even at the most crazy speed it will take about two years, at least one and a half years.

On the contrary, the SLS inherits the Ares series of rockets and adopts the mature technology of the Space Shuttle, so how can it fly before the Long March 10.

But now he was shocked to learn that his peers across the Pacific had built a rocket to the moon faster than he could have imagined.

Faced with the menacing senator, Claire could only answer his question first:

"There were some problems in the development of the SLS rocket, but we solved these troubles and will still launch as scheduled."

Senator: "You mean, the SLS rocket is going to be ten!" Two! Month! to launch, right? ”

Claire stubbornly said: "Yes, it can be in early December at the earliest, and it is guaranteed that the SLS rocket will be launched before 2017." ”

Senator: "We've already given Artemis a whopping $60 billion budget this year, and as far as I know, the Dawning program as a whole is only $8 billion, so can you tell us where that money goes, and why is the SLS rocket even more backward than the Long March 10?" ”

When it comes to funding, Claire has even more headaches, what is known to Ami now, the number and quality of workers are constantly decreasing, especially in the high-tech industry, which requires overtime, and the average salary given is more than 5 times that of the other side of the sea, and the purchase price is even more so.

Now that SLS can make its first flight so long in advance, it is the result of crazy overtime, and $60 billion is about to be spent.

But he decided not to accept the offer, and instead tried to justify it:

"The Chinese space agency can only use Long March 10 rockets, and they need at least four rockets to land people on the moon, but the Artemis program will only use three SLS rockets, and even if it is delayed by four months now, it is still faster for us.

Moreover, the development and production of the Long March 10 rocket is too hasty, and its reliability must not be high. ”

When the senators heard his words, they burst into laughter, and one of the senators stood up and shouted:

"Director Claire, did you have absolutely no knowledge of CASA before taking up your current position? Looking at the ranking of the success rate of rocket launches in the world, let's pin our hopes on their failure?!

We should impeach you and come up with someone who is more sober! ”

(End of chapter)