"Two months ago, you said that NACA was about to reverse its backwardness and move into a tie, and in the long run it would gradually surpass;

1 month ago, you said that NACA was a close second and could overtake at any time;

Half a month ago, the Dream Chaser flight failed, and we had to use Lucia's Soyuz spacecraft to launch the crew again, paying the highest ticket ever, and Aramco paid 70% of the cost as the defaulting party, but you still say that this is a minor problem;

Now, Director Claire, tell me we're about to lose? ”

John slowly counted the changes in the situation in the past few months, his expression became more and more stiff, and the anger in his heart was exuberant to the extreme.

Before taking office, he was slightly behind, and after taking office, there was a space shuttle failure, and then suddenly he fell behind by a large margin, who can hold on?

Could it be that the whole world is deliberately targeting me, against the blessed land blessed by God?!

John struggled to calm down and confronted Claire:

"Let's not mention our progress, according to CASA's schedule, they are the fourth rocket to land on the moon, and it will have to be next year, why do they say that they may land on the moon in August this year?"

Claire: "A lot of the public part of these plans is not credible in the race to return to the moon, 56 years ago, we competed with the alliance to see who would send the first human into space, and they claimed that it was only an unmanned experiment before launching Gagarin, and no one knew that Gagarin had been lifted off.

If I were the director of CASA, I could have taken a limited adventure with the temptation of 8 months in advance with the advancement of modern technology, and we would have to prepare for the worst. ”

John: "Which is the greater risk for the Artemis program to cancel the manned flight around the moon and land on the moon with a second SLS rocket?" ”

Claire: "Although they have one more flight, Ami has experience in the moon landing, the technology is more mature, and the risk is actually about the same. ”

John: "Claire, you have to take responsibility for the lives of the astronauts. ”

Claire: "And for the honor of the United States." ”

John stood up, turned to look out the window, and thought for a long time before turning back.

"Your Excellency, first of all, you must understand why we have invested so much money in the Artemis Project, which is why the God of War Ares Project has not been officially launched for a long time;

Artemis plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars, and Congress has done its best to divert taxpayer money from social welfare to NACA's programs, all with one purpose: Aramco first. ”

Claire understood John's underlying words: if he didn't secure the first place, then the next Congressional support for NACA would be limited, and John would not be able to maintain strong support.

However, NACA is not a state-owned enterprise, and there are no huge factories with tens of thousands of people and subordinate supporting factories that rigidly execute orders, and many times it is not possible for Claire to do what she wants.

"Claire, I don't care what you do, let Ami get first, make us great again, let the world see our strength, I've started where I can, and so does NACA."

John's calm and forceful opening finally gave Claire and the other companies backed by NACA a big pie.

"Show me what you're capable of, the investment in the God of War Ares project is unprecedented, and you need to give me the motivation to push it."

Claire was silent for a while, and finally made up her mind for a long time.

With advanced technology half a century later, there should no longer be such a need to be cautious, right? Perhaps some of the rules in astronautics can be ignored for the time being.

Adventure is also part of history.

……

Bangalore.

Najiradze pinched his watch and turned on his computer to watch the live broadcast of the Long March 10 Yao-2 rocket launch through the satellite antenna of the Jingwei network.

In the past two months, Natiradze and some Lucia experts have begun to take over the development of the Gaganyan program, thoroughly combing India's space industry, and then starting to promote the research of various subsystems.

The Gaganyan spacecraft is too backward, so backward that it can only be said to be usable, and there is nothing to praise at all, but there are slots everywhere, and the Vostok spacecraft seems to be more secure in comparison.

Due to the lack of space technology accumulation, the design of the Gaganyan spacecraft is full of ideas of "I am looking for what can be done", and some of them even run counter to the space road.

Fortunately, in order to improve the progress of the Gaganyan spacecraft as soon as possible, ISRO finally made the most correct decision for the entire Gaganyan project: all the management of the project was taken over by Lucia experts.

Because ISRO paid a lot of money, and because it was all backward technology, Natiladze gave the technology without reservation according to the instructions, and some backward designs that were limited by the times were also copied, because this was instead reducing the consumption of brain cells for ISRO staff.

The improved Gaganyan spacecraft is still dead, with little usable space and poor comfort, but Najiradze has fully taken into account the many uncertainties of Made in India, and has made heavy adjustments in safety design, and every place is full of distrust of the third brother.

Look at CASA in comparison...... Najiradze is suspicious that the reason why the third brother still has the heart of comparison is completely ignorant of CASA's technical height.

Although the space agency has always kept a low profile about its YF130: because in their opinion, the non-reusability of the dual combustion chamber is already a reversal of history, and it has to be done as a last resort, except for the thrust, there is nothing particularly outstanding.

But this can't change the status of YF130: the world's largest dual-combustion chamber liquid oxygen kerosene high-pressure refueling engine is really ahead of RD170, which is a little behind K380.

It is indeed a lot behind in front of the K380, but excluding this monster, the YF130 and the YF135 with a thrust of 360 tons in a single combustion chamber are already the world's leading high-performance engines.

You know, the alliance is the expert in kerosene machines!

In this mentality of gaining and losing, the Long March 10 has been completely covered by the white fog of low temperatures, and has entered the final procedure before launch.

On the Bund of the launch site, hundreds of thousands of spectators were interested in landing on the moon.

Interestingly, this time the audience accounted for a large proportion of the Bay Island and island countries, and they did not seem to be out of place in the crowd, and it was almost impossible to tell if they did not come forward to talk.

Many islanders have learned to count countdowns in Chinese, and their pride in cheering rocket launches is even stronger than that of mainland citizens.

In the launch center, Yun Hongjun and Liu Minglu both clasped their hands and prayed frantically to Qian Lao in their hearts.

Before the YF77G was loaded with rockets, the assembly workshop also secretly carried out a consecration ceremony in the factory, and invited the Taoist monks to come over to practice, and the welding rods and screws were worshiped with three animals, and the leaders of the Jingu rocket base did not react to this, but cleaned the road and set off some firecrackers before the rocket was loaded and transported.

There is no way, if the YF77G fails again this time, it will be over, and it will not be finished with no less than a few chief engineers, and it will seriously interfere with the progress of the Dawning Project, then the problem will be big.

However, they are not without back-ups, to guide the YF77G to improve the Xinyuan engineers to ensure that there are no problems, otherwise not only will they pay liquidated damages but also send an additional 20 H240s, which is enough for the Long March 10 to be retired......

"Ten, Nine, Eight......"

10 YF130s were ignited one after another, and this batch of YF130 has undergone minor improvements, with improved swing angle and flow adjustment range, which has little impact on the Long March 10, but is for the technical verification of the recyclable YF135.

The flames emitted from the 20 vents are even larger and more spectacular than Xinyuan-3, and even if it is launched in the daytime, people will feel dazzling when they look at the light emitted by the tail flame, and if it is a short-sighted person, it is almost two suns in the sky.

When the Long March 10 left the launch pad, more than 5,100 tons of thrust had been fully released, and the local people around the Qiongzhou launch site felt a slight vibration in the air and the ground.

Ignorant tourists are still shouting, and seasoned locals can already tell the type of rocket from the shock.

Lin Ju and Ye Changsi came outside, and the latter was full of red tears at this time, muttering about the old money over and over again.

He was the "little junior brother" of Qian Lao, and later returned to China, not only to take on the important task of the scientific research department, but also to shoulder the responsibility of teaching students, from a blank to establish all kinds of high-level projects.

Qian Lao, who has a deep connection with von Braun and von Kármán, has long been thinking about space exploration, and has also tried to do some interstellar exploration in that difficult era.

The elder brother went to build rockets, and he, the "little junior brother", went to build satellites, and the friendship between classmates in the early days became more profound with the intersection of work.

When he saw that the plan that the deceased senior brother had conceived was resurrected again and rapidly advanced, Ye Changsi could no longer suppress his emotions.

And next to him, Lin Ju's heart was also troubled.

After careful calculation and analysis, the meteorological department believes that Qiongzhou will usher in several powerful typhoons after July this year, and the two launch sites are not easy to find in the second half of the year, and it may be necessary to "see the seams," which will cause a lot of inconvenience to the space program.

However, many of the medium- and heavy-duty rockets of the Xinyuan and Space Bureau are designed for the launch of Qiongzhou, and there are no suitable launch conditions in the inland, and this year is a high-frequency launch period, so the Aviation Development Commission is trying to support the Meteorological Bureau to find out the pattern of typhoons as much as possible, so as to adjust the space plan in time.

The first two days were too busy, I'm sorry to everyone, I really don't have time, these two days are too, it's all early morning code words, and I'll try to update it as much as possible after these few days

(End of chapter)