“Land Warrior？”

In the outer circle of the booth, the Pratt & Whitney staff who came to promote their own civil aero engine remembered something and blurted out.

Land Warrior, the "Land Warrior" individual combat system proposed by Aramco in 1991, includes a series of equipment including power exoskeletons and combat robots, but it was almost canceled several times, and many people know about it.

Warrior No. 1, is it the Chinese version of "Land Warrior"?

Northern Weapons and Aerospace Science and Industry even thought of the practical value of Warrior No. 1 for a moment, and the appearance of Warrior No. 1 with 89 heavy aircraft street battle raid had already appeared in his mind.

As an exemplary sample of the artificial intelligence part, Warrior One made a lot of eyeballs on the first day of the show.

……

Dayton Airport, Ohio.

Sierra Nevada Corporation joined Lockheed Martin and most of NACA's participants in the Dream Chaser program to welcome visitors.

The people who came were a team of seven or eight people, and the leader of them was in his fifties and very energetic.

Dozens of people gathered in the hangar does not seem crowded, here is the airport prepared for the Dream Chaser series of space shuttles, specially built a comprehensive hangar integrating overhaul, maintenance and transformation, covering a large area.

The Dream Chaser B1 space shuttle, which completed its maiden flight, is being hoisted in mid-air, and the interior is undergoing further modifications.

There are 3 days left until the boss election day.

"Mr. John, this is the Dream Chaser, which is installing follow-up equipment, and will conduct a full-state unmanned test flight in 15 days, and then it will be able to achieve a manned flight next time."

NACA's Dream Chaser Program Host Officer proudly introduced the visitor, who kept nodding his head and looking up triumphantly:

"yes, I know this is the new space shuttle, Ami spent five years without the shuttle, and now we have her again, which is good, very good.

The Space Shuttle is the hallmark of advanced space technology, and I know we're still great. ”

John tilted his head to cast an inquiring look at the staff, and after nodding his head, he wiped his hand on the red tie and gently placed it on the bottom insulation tile of the Dream Chaser.

Feeling the cold touch of the insulating ceramic, John turned his head and spit out a sentence:

"This is our H1, and on behalf of John's Company, I would like to make a $5,000 donation per person to all of the Dream Chaser staff, all of you, and commend your hard work as an Aramco citizen."

Although he is one of the only two candidates, John does not see himself as a pre-boss and speaks cautiously.

When it comes to cash prizes, John's tall figure of 1.9 meters is even more majestic in the eyes of everyone, and he feels that although this former state councilor who is running with him is a little unreliable, he is still very supportive of the aerospace industry!

"Thank you, on behalf of all of you, I thank Mr. John for his selfless donation......"

Eamon, the general project leader of Sierra Nevada, shook John's hand, and then listened to the latter continue:

"I guess Dream Chaser must have a business plan, right?"

Eamon: "Well, of course, Sierra Nevada is a company that specializes in the transportation of people to and from the ground, so naturally we have plans for that. ”

John: "I had planned to go to space on the H1, but if you guys could make a tourist flight next year, I'd be willing to pay $30 million." ”

“…… Wow," Aemon didn't expect that there would be passengers who would deliver to the door by themselves, and they would be willing to pay such a high price, and he was a little moved.

"Thank you for your support of Aramco's space cause, as you said, this is exactly ......"

"Ami rises! Is that right? ”

John didn't care about spending 30 million US dollars at all, and now there are more and more wealthy people in space, but many of them are through the Oriental International Space Hotel, and he prefers to support his own business and let the glory of freedom shine on the world again.

As a hardcore idol of Texas Redneck, John's image has always been to protect local interests and shift his focus to people's livelihood and social environment, which is very different from Diane's traditional white elite.

Don't do anything right, only protect the common people, although it is not in line with traditional values at all, John still does not intend to change.

After all, he was halfway through his home and became a state legislator and knew what people were really concerned about.

The only variable was the Dawning program, which forced NACA to launch and accelerate the Artemis moon landing ahead of schedule, and after a year, the race has entered a white-hot phase.

The debut of the Long March 10 in August reminded countless old Aramco Stars and Stripes of the greatness of the Apollo program, the astronauts of the Apollo program who were not yet dead frequently appeared in the media to fight against conspiracy theories about the moon landing, and Buzz Aldrin, who already has a lot of Alzheimer's disease, insisted on touring and giving speeches in middle schools across the country, trying to arouse people's dreams of space.

John and Diane's campaign rhetoric also inevitably includes a space factor, which may well be an extremely important key point in the former's view.

In the week leading up to Election Day, John visited several space companies and made donations, after all, as his state legislator and family business, there was no shortage of money.

The Dream Chaser is the last stop, and he has thus clarified the basic pattern of the current space race:

CASA, with less experience and a late start, but the speed of progress is rapid, although some technologies are still lacking, but through strong industrial capabilities and rich talent system, it is rapidly maturing, and some aspects of achievement have surpassed NACA;

XAP, a mysterious and powerful aerospace company, with a background suspected to be supported by the world's Chinese elites, has a considerable rich technical background, and is strong;

CASA+XAP, which is basically the main red side lineup, and the others are small fish and shrimp; The blue side players are a consortium of more than a dozen giant companies, mainly NACA, as well as European forces, and in terms of technology and scale, the advantage is mine.

In terms of spacecraft, SLS benchmarks against Long March 10, Dream Chaser benchmarks against H1, FATS plans benchmarks against H2, super-heavy Starship benchmarks against Xinyuan-3, Latitude and Longitude Satellite Network benchmarks against Starlink, and ISS benchmarks against Tiangong, which are roughly the same.

The centrifugal space station is lagging behind, the supergiant rocket is lagging behind, and the manufacturing capacity is lagging behind.

Especially the last one, the fact that the Long March 10 was only 10 months from the establishment of the project to the first launch gave a great shock to the peers, which means that the manufacturing time of the Long March 10 will not exceed 6 months, or even more than 4 months, and it can be fired three times a year, surpassing the Aramco during the Apollo program.

With that in mind, John knew what he had to do.

After leaving Ohio, on Nov. 3, two days before the election, John and Diane had their final election debate at Texas Technical University.

Diane quietly watched John interact with the crowd, just silently looking at the manuscript.

The televised debate is a classic part of the boss battle, where both sides have to debate from multiple areas and take the opportunity to express their work lines and win over voters.

Diane is clearly on the cards, even though John is popular, she is just a successful real estate businessman, and she has spent her life dancing in politics and knows better what to do and when.

The host started with the economy, culture, medical care, etc., although John also had a staff team, but obviously had no experience in practice, Diane had no experience, and it didn't take long for him to be at a disadvantage.

Compared to the unhurried and well-organized Diane, John seems overly impatient, and in his fifties, he is a little younger than Diane, and even says that Diane "doesn't have the appearance of a boss, she doesn't have that energy".

Diane countered: "As long as he visits 112 countries first, negotiates a peace agreement, a ceasefire agreement, and helps free dissidents...... Or even testify to a congressional committee for 11 hours before he comes and talks to me. ”

The atmosphere between the two sides was obviously not very harmonious, but fortunately, the moderator ended the current topic and led to the last one: space.

Diane's answer is basically a continuation of Black's view of the Artemis mission, arguing that NACA is the light of freedom, and emphasizing that the Artemis program is different from the "stereotyped" Apollo program, which wants to send women to the surface of the moon with blacks and unspeakable people.

This 100% correct remark received a lot of applause, and then waited for the Michael Jackson friend to respond.

John glanced down at the manuscript prepared by his staff, then flipped it face down.

"Gentlemen, citizens of the United States who have grown up in freedom, I would like to say to you that, as they have described, the second space race has begun.

This is different from the past, it does not mean that we spend a lot of effort to send human beings to space and the moon just to get 'the NO.1', what we will do is to build a new home on the moon and Mars, and find new colonies.

Six Artemis missions, 24 astronauts, twice as many as the Apollo program, but that's not enough, our goal should be to put 240, 24,000 people on spacecraft to send them into space, just like the ancestors who crossed the Atlantic in the Age of Discovery.

It means much more than we think......"

John's words weren't flowery, but Diane was keenly aware of what he was trying to say: Diane saw the space race as part of a campaign, and like the mainstream of previous thought, the formal moon landing was of limited significance, and the people were more concerned about the affairs of the earth today;

But John clearly made the space race his main mission, and there was a bit of a war at all costs.

This young man ...... You don't have to do a lot of work, do you?

Dai An'an was a little uneasy, and her instinct told her that John was about to say something amazing.

Compared with her formulaic speech, John tried to use popular sentences to make space closer to civilians, after all, the basic Texas Red Neck believes in the theory of the earth and the level of education of the shoe education is still slightly behind the elite.

Fortunately, many of the audience at the scene today are students from local universities, the effect is not bad, and the emotional mobilization is in place, John finally began to release his ultimate:

“…… No one knows how to be a space-age boss better than me, and if I'm elected, I'll be in space next year on the Dream Chaser Space Shuttle! ”

Audience: Crazy applause (shocked. JPG）。

This is much more exciting than listening to current political news, and sure enough, John can live, and Ami's boss goes to space, which is a good idea when I hear it.

Pleased with the response, John cried out his decision after a night of consulting with his staff and visiting a number of NACA officials:

"The Moon is just a small step in the exploration of extraterrestrial planets, it is not suitable for human existence, it is just an outpost of our homeland, barren and small, and the Artemis program is just the beginning.

The goal of the 21st century should be to colonize the solar system, we must go to the terrestrial planets that are most likely to develop colonies, establish colony cities with more than 1,000 people, and completely free mankind from dependence on the blue planet!

I'm going to push the entire civilized world to carry out the 'God of War Ares' Mars colonization plan! The entire Ares project will be completed by Aramco, creating 1 million jobs, solving the unemployment problem of at least 5 million families, and at the same time launching a new era of $2 trillion infrastructure plan, moving forward to the interstellar age!

In 8 years, we will send humans to Mars by 2024 and establish the first long-term colony! ”

“We choose to go to the Mars，not because it's esay but because it's hard! We choose to go to the Mars in the next 8 years，overcome all difficulties and become great again!

(We chose to go to Mars, not because it was easy, but because it was hard!) We choose to go to Mars in the next 8 years, overcome all difficulties, and become great again! ）”

(End of chapter)