The colonel looked at Liu Si, who had a calm face, and showed his sleeves to reveal his strong muscles:

"Here, try your strength."

"Be careful, sir."

Liu Si did not refuse, the two hands that seemed to be not very different grasped together, and began to exert force at the same time.

After only seven or eight seconds, an irrepressible hideousness appeared on the colonel's face, and Liu Si let go of his hand in time when he saw this.

The Colonel opened his almost unconscious palm and asked in disbelief:

"How much force did you just use?"

Liu Si replied truthfully: "About three or four percent." ”

Several soldiers in the back gasped, the colonel was known for his outstanding physical fitness before, but he was suppressed by three or four percent of his strength.

On the contrary, the people in the Security Service were better than a little surprised, and they knew better.

Four days ago, they came to the arraignment again because of a traitor's case, and discovered the incredible changes in Liu Si, which immediately attracted the attention of the military and demanded that the experimental subjects be expanded immediately.

But after actually seeing Liu Si's changes, they can deeply feel the terrifying power of biotechnology, even more terrifying than robots.

A soldier who participated in the test had a glint in his eyes, with such great strength, I heard that he had also improved his ability to resist blows, wouldn't that mean that he could even fight with a warrior?

The base is not stingy with voluntary experimenters, in addition to the military's compensation, an additional one-time compensation of 5 million yuan, and a commitment to take responsibility for their lifelong health.

Of course, this is also because of the harmlessness of the 304 injection, and the system is still worth trusting.

Three experimenters, that can basically verify the universal effect of 304 injections, Semyon is still very happy.

After the colonel tested the effect of the injection, he pulled Semyon aside and whispered:

"Is there any potential for reducing the cost of this injection? 74 million is too expensive. ”

Xie Miao: "Biopharmaceuticals are like this, some of the raw materials we use are only a dozen grams in the world throughout the year, and your three injections are used up, and the next batch of four will have to wait until next year."

We can also take on a maximum of five volunteers, and I am afraid that we will need financial support in the future. ”

The colonel sighed, the above attaches great importance to this project, but if the cost is close to 100 million, it really can't be applied, and the cost performance is still much lower than that of the robot biochemical warrior.

Xie Miao kindly comforted: "In fact, the small output is also due to the low demand, and when we are ready for large-scale mass production, the cost should still be reduced, and the investment in the early seven or eight years is hundreds of billions of billions, and it is not too late to apply in 2025."

We're going to go to the moon soon, and the bio-potion won't be far away. ”

Nearly 100 billion? Are medicines so expensive?

But when you think about those anti-cancer drugs with millions of injections, it seems that 304 injections are not expensive?

The Colonel's vision suddenly appeared with a second robot driving an electric forklift, and it seemed that there were two worlds inside and outside the base.

……

June 19, Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B launch pad.

The heavy Falcon rocket, codenamed B1033, was surrounded by a brightly lit launch pad at night, and a trace of cold gas was constantly escaping from the rocket body, and it had just finished refueling.

In the fairing with a diameter of 5.1 meters above it is a fuel tank manufactured by Raytheon that will dock with the Blue Moon lander and refuel.

Space refueling is not a simple technology, especially more than 20 tons, but fortunately, Raytheon's technology is powerful, ensuring that there will never be any accidents.

In media releases, B1033 is a "planned launch" carrying a module of the "Gateway" space station and has nothing to do with the space race.

Whether the public believes it or not, but anyway, the spokesman's dead face shows that he himself should not believe it either.

However, the launch date of the fuel refueling module in orbit is six or seven days in advance, and the procedures that should be taken are basically the same, so there should be no accidents.

But neither the B1034 on the LC-39A launch pad nor the SLS Block 1 rocket that was being shipped from Mississippi overnight.

The "Blue Moon" lander was originally planned to complete the final factory test from the 22nd to the 29th, but now it is too late to work overtime, requiring that it must be launched before June 25, and the B1034 Heavy Falcon carrying it is still being assembled and tested.

If these two can be dealt with by working overtime a few days in advance, then the second SLS rocket is a little troublesome.

According to the original plan, this SLS should leave the factory around July 20, and it is more reasonable to launch around August 10.

The manufacturing of the rocket body has actually been completed for a while, but as a giant rocket with a mass of 2,500 tons, the hidden danger detection work and simulation test of the electrical system and the rocket body are the main ones, and now less than 40% of them are being carried out.

Two SRB boosters can reduce some energy, as a veteran that has been tested countless times in the space shuttle era and the "God of War" program, the stability of the SRB is still trustworthy, but the level of risk in the core stage is no different to a newly built rocket, which must go through a lot of rigorous tests to pass.

But now the rest of the work is intended to be done by both Boeing and Lockheed on the LC-39B launch pad, which will be launched as soon as it passes.

Not to mention any overtime or not, the number of personnel at the Kennedy Space Center will more than double in the last ten days, and Claire will conduct spot checks day and night, snatching time measured in minutes and hours from the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

It was too rushed, a full month less than they expected, and it directly doubled the risk of Artemis II's mission.

In the midst of this urgency and the incentives of NACA's indiscriminate dollar incentive, the launch center completed the entire preparation process for the Heavy Falcon as quickly as possible, and the ignition order was issued less than thirty minutes later.

The Heavy Falcon lived up to Claire's expectations, steadily pushing the fuel filling module into the Earth-Moon transfer orbit with the core stage and booster all not being reused.

……

"We don't lose to anyone, NACA is always one step ahead, and just now, the first lunar module has been flown to the moon again."

Two days...... The direct announcement of the Dawning 3 mission three days ago is a bright card.

The superiors carefully looked at the progress comparison between the two sides, and felt that there was no need to hide it, so they directly announced the lunar landing schedule.

Artemis II, who was originally going to run away, was stupid, they were going to run away, but the other side also planned to take a step ahead, so they could only grit their teeth and chase desperately.

Claire was pulled into a hearing by Congress two days ago, but he persuaded the lawmakers to fly to Florida on the grounds of "urging the progress of the plan", so the depressed lawmakers turned their attention to John.

What did you say before you took office? said that we can take the lead, said that Ami is first, why do you wake up and others are about to go to the moon?!

John tried to quibble, but the parliamentarians weren't stupid either:

"We need three rockets to complete the moon landing, but one rocket is enough for them, our three! Hair! Only one with someone else! Hair! Again, and with the Dawning Project funding less than $8 billion, what is NACA doing with the money? ”

John: "But we've made it a third of the way, and we're going to be two-thirds soon, and we're going to be faster!" ”

"Can it be launched before July 1st?"

"Yes, surely!"

(End of chapter)