Yuri Borisov was confident in this proposal, because it was one of the many arguments of the Union period, and its feasibility was absolutely unquestionable, and it was technically completely feasible.

Lucia actually took it out before, but who would be idle and burden herself when the song and dance were leveling?

Now the ISS member states are much more pleasing to the eye of this mini centrifugal cabin, which has gravity, and the main thing is that it is not expensive.

Lucia itself is much cheaper than Europe and the United States to build spacecraft, at most two billion dollars, and it is still easy for everyone to get together.

Just when the delegates felt that Lucia had a rare lion to open his mouth, Yuri immediately overturned their little relief and put forward Lucia's request:

The main part of the centrifugal chamber must be built by Lucia, but the internal equipment can accept multinational cooperation, but the launch must choose Lucia rockets.

Looking at the launch schedule again, well, for six launch missions, because of the size of the parts, you have to use the "Proton" rocket or Angara A5 with excess capacity, and the launch cost is high, maybe it will be the same as the manufacturing cost of the centrifugal cabin.

Just when the countries were about to scold Maozi for their black hearts, the expansion plan proposed by Montal made them collectively lose their voices.

NACA's plan of three test modules + three living modules is even more terrifying, plus the need to launch a space shuttle to install trusses, which is expected to cost $40 billion, ten times more than the Lucia centrifugal module.

$40 billion......

Obviously, Aramco will only contribute a part of more than 10 billion at most, and the rest will be shared with other countries.

ISS member states, which are major members of ESA, can indeed scrape together tens of billions of dollars in the next few years, but that money has already gone somewhere: the Selene plan.

In order to avoid the rapid progress of long nights and dreams, the hairy Guoyan insisted on suppressing the domestic march calling for a reduction in working hours all day long, and strongly promoted the aerospace industry to accelerate the manufacture of the Hermes space shuttle.

The main body of the HVY moon landing rocket, the VV-1, is also in full swing after the engine is in place, and with the support of the engineers of the Aviation Development Commission, the first sample arrow has been manufactured and is ready to be filled with a water shaking table.

Behind this abnormal speed is naturally the huge financial support provided by ESA through gritted teeth, and the space budgets of major European countries have basically been spent, and even the first two billion dollars of funds have been scraped together under the call of the queen.

If the ISS expansion is to be supported, it will be a heavy burden for countries.

Of course, there is another way, that is, to embezzle the funds of the Selene plan, which I believe is also what Ami is willing to see.

……

Class B base.

Three heavily covered trucks with radiation signs drove into the base escorted by a column of police cars, and then followed a strict predetermined route in the direction of the airport, where a Y-20 waited with its tailgate open.

The transport plane was surrounded by the staff of the base, who lifted the square containers from three trucks into the cargo hold, and then handed over the formalities to one of the officers of the transport crew.

The latter carefully checked the items on it, confirmed that it was correct, and then ordered the hatch to close, and then entered the plane and waited for the take-off order from the tower.

The transport plane takes off and heads all the way west, then turns north and goes to some barren depth.

Test Site 257, once a preparatory underground nuclear test site, was abandoned with the termination of the Nuclear Test Treaty and is now reopened as a test site for nuclear engines.

On top of this transport plane are three production versions of the A100 engines, which will be shipped here after the final assembly is completed at the Aoyama base, and the researchers sent here by the base will conduct a long test test of the three engines for about 10 days, and if there are no accidents, the three engines will be issued with certificates of conformity.

The three engines would then be transported back to base again and mounted on the Storm, which had been waiting for it.

The naming of the third space shuttle, and the first H2N nuclear-powered space shuttle, has finally been confirmed.

All nuclear-powered space shuttles will be named after the wind, the first one is more special called "Storm", and the fourth H2 is nearing completion, that is, the one allocated to the 909 project is the space agency's "Great Wall One", and the fifth is more than 60% progressive, named "Typhoon".

Among them, the "Storm" was the first to be completed, and has been waiting in the final assembly workshop for a long time, and is finally about to usher in its heart.

If nothing else, the Storm should be able to make its maiden flight just in time for Labor Day and launch its first nuclear thermal engine in space.

However, the current "storm" looks shabby, and the mighty body is hidden under the tricolor cloth.

There is no way, there is only one large hangar that can accommodate the H2 for final assembly, and it usually has to accept the manufacturing and installation processes of giant rocket parts and large modules, so it cannot let the "Storm" occupy too much space.

So the latter can only aggrievedly remove the tail wing and push it to the outside of the gate, cover it with a layer of rain cloth, and the daily air or rain and snow have no effect on its integrated thermal insulation.

Every time Xiao Okada passed by after work, he could see the super spacecraft hidden by the colorful tarpaulin.

Recently, he has a lot of things, not because of the base, but because of his old friends of the island country.

Now he has many titles, such as honorary president of the Friendship Association between the two countries, member of the Council for Aerospace Technology Exchange, and leader of the Pan-Asianism movement...... A bunch of messy titles, and he is often asked by mainland islanders to come over to host various exchange meetings or something.

However, these are all kinds of activities organized by active non-governmental groups, and Xiao Okada is happy to do "part-time jobs" in his spare time, but he encountered a little accident yesterday.

He was contacted through an association and wanted to meet and talk, saying that he was a pan-Asianist who wanted to sponsor their group, but wanted to meet with the board of directors.

With a suspicious attitude, Xiao Okada made contact, and then found out that the other party had another purpose.

The person who came claimed to be a wealthy businessman, but he had been trying to get information from Xiao Okada, and the highly vigilant Xiao Okada was about to leave immediately, anyway, the other party couldn't do anything in the café near the base, which made the latter hurriedly reveal his true purpose.

It turned out that the representative of the other party was actually a certain congressman, and the person he wanted to contact was not Xiao Okada, but wanted to get official support through Xiao Okada to promote exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in space technology and personnel.

Including but not limited to cooperating in the launch of rockets, satellites, astronauts and other in-depth content, and hope that Xiao Okada can become one of the intermediaries of cooperation.

Xiao Okada naturally hurriedly reported such a big matter to Lin Ju, and the latter immediately handed it over again, obviously they were just building a bridge, and the matter that mysterious person wanted to talk about was too sensitive.

But Xiao Okada didn't feel that nothing was light, but he always had a faint feeling that something big would happen.

(End of chapter)