On November 22, ESA officially announced the official launch of the Selene manned lunar exploration program.

"The Selene program will creatively use the European Space Shuttle to carry out the lunar landing, which will help save costs already for environmental causes, while reusable rockets can also significantly reduce environmental pollution.

The ultimate goal of Selene is to send all the astronauts of the 22 member countries to the surface of the moon, and the country, Italy, and Germany will undertake the main research work of the Selene program......"

Texas Redneck Light, Aramco's future boss, amateur movie actor and fried chicken spokesperson - John George lowered the volume on his phone and looked at his number one staff member, Mike Piot, suspiciously:

"Pio, isn't Europe involved in our Artemis program? Why did they go to the moon on their own? ”

"Sir, the monthly landing places that Artemis plans to give to ESA are one each for Artemis 4 and Artemis 5, and they have 22 member states."

“……”

Seeing that John did not speak for a long time, Pio thought that he was angry at the betrayal of his ally, and said tentatively:

"Do we want to put pressure on NACA, or increase the number of missions in the Artemis program, ...... more"

"No, don't do that."

John interrupted him, rubbing his chin and thinking for a moment:

"The Artemis program is not that we need to rely on Europe, but that it is to win hearts and minds and give them a chance to land on the moon, and their participation is actually slowing down Aramco."

Mike Piot: "Huh? ”

John: "We have so many great companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin Marietta, SpecaX, and we give them the service cabin to make it, which is hurting Aramco's manufacturing industry, and the money should be given to Aramco workers!"

Do you remember what I said? Amico should complete the space program as independently as possible and not be overly dependent on allies, who are dragging us back! Not only that, but the various UN agreements are also interfering with Aramco, and we should not be limited by these rules and regulations, but decide for ourselves what to do. ”

Although Mike Piot is not a sophisticated political elite, he still understands John's subconscious meaning, is this to reverse isolation?

A hundred years ago, Aramco was isolated by Europe and desperately wanted to integrate into the world, and now John wants to isolate the world in reverse??!

The latter still gushes:

"Their withdrawal is a good thing, is ESA still buying our rocket engines? Let them do it themselves, we will sell products, increase the scale of manufacturing, and the God of War Ares plan, we will do it all ourselves, and we will increase the number of jobs for Aramco! ”

The voice fell, and in Pio's stunned gaze, John skillfully opened the little blue bird, liked and left a message under the news released by ESA:

"It's great to see our allies develop an independent space industry!"

Then he tweeted: "Europe's independence will reduce the pressure on NACA, and Aramco can reduce the alliance's spending to improve people's livelihoods." ”

Pio was stunned for a while and still couldn't figure out John's brain circuit, but for the sake of his national teacher, he still became a licking dog:

"Mr. John, you are doing the right thing, Aramco manufacturing is greater than everything, and their Selene plan may not succeed in ten years without our support!"

……

Moscow.

After more than 10 days of consultations and negotiations, Shivin Samarkand reached an agreement with Lucia Space Agency on behalf of the Indian Space Agency.

Together with ISRO, the RKA will conduct research on the Gaganyan spacecraft, including a service module, a manned return capsule, an escape tower, an electric power and propulsion module, and more.

To speed up the research, most of the proven technologies from the Soyuz spacecraft will be used.

To this end, ISRO will pay a total of $600 million to RKA over the next 10 months, including technology transfer, manufacturing of some parts, and personnel guidance, and the latter will guarantee the completion of the first full-state unmanned launch and recovery of the Gaganyan spacecraft in June 2017, and the first manned flight of the Gaganyan spacecraft by December 2017.

Witnessed by the media, Samarkand and Yuri, who were still a little dizzy after participating in the 8-day event, signed a cooperation agreement on space technology cooperation between Lu-India and then shook hands and took pictures.

That evening, Samarkand was ready to board the plane and return home, and Yuri took him all the way to the airport.

"Director Borisov, thank you for your hospitality, but I want to report back to China first, and I ask you to discharge the technical team as soon as possible to guide."

In the face of Yuri's enthusiasm, Samarkand couldn't help but think of his eight drunken nights, and shrunk his neck in fear, wanting to leave this cold and snowy place all the time.

Yuri (still unsatisfied): "Director Samarkand, I see that Europe has already studied the Selene Plan, and your Asia Star Program has not yet been officially established, so you must do it as soon as possible." ”

Using the alcohol method, all the details of the Asia Star program were completely covered by the KGB, and the RKA confirmed India's attitude towards the Asia Star program: it was very desirable to do it, but it was a bit unconfident.

The rocket ISRO of the H-X, the monkey version of SLS landing on the moon, is very exciting, but the indicators are too "high", and I feel that it is also very difficult to add island countries, and the two sides are still a little self-aware and are still difficult to demonstrate.

Yuri saw an opportunity from this, the HX rocket subsystem is basically reliable, after all, it is all Aramco technology, the rocket body, the engine is fine, the key is that these two countries are too lacking in large-scale integration capabilities, and this is precisely Lucia's strength.

Although I can't look down on the moon trip of the two weak chickens, if they can come up with tens of billions, then I, Lucia, can also make a cameo appearance as a good old man to help you realize your dreams.

Of course, it is a matter of course to raise your own funds for the moon landing, and it will be open to you when the time comes!

Although Shivin Samarkand is very confident in his country, even he thinks that the goal of landing on the moon is still a little stressful for India, after all, it has not even sent people into space.

He didn't even dare to tell Yuri that he felt that the Asiastar program was not as reliable as the Selene program that joined ESA.

"Thank you for your concern, Director Borisov, I will respond to the country as soon as possible."

Yuri: "No problem, we'll also contact the island nation, you're all old friends with deep roots in Lucia. ”

Watching Samarkand rush into the cabin like a fledgling, the smile on Yuri's face slowly calmed down, and he didn't know what he was thinking on his uncertain face.

The $500 million he received from ISRO is equivalent to 31 billion rubles, which is enough to support the launch of the moon landing program, but he also sees that the Asia Star project is actually very unstable and may be abandoned at any time.

The Gaganyan plan will not allow Lucia to get much money in a short period of time, and only by letting India and the island firmly promote the Asian Star program can they bite off a piece of meat, and maybe it will be enough for Lucia to complete the entire independent moon landing program.

So...... Gotta give them a little favor.

(End of chapter)