Texas.

When Musk saw the exterior photos taken after entering orbit, he was no less shocked than ordinary people who saw rocket recovery technology for the first time.

Just as it is difficult for ordinary people to understand how to recover such a long rocket and hold it firmly on the ground, it is also difficult for him to understand how Tengyun can send such a huge body into space.

Unlike rockets that often achieve a dry mass ratio of more than 10 and a large skin, Tengyun's empty weight is definitely not low, and the fuel carried by the limited wing area is only equivalent to a small and medium-sized rocket, but it is inconceivable to send the heavy body into space, and at least 5 tons of fuel must be carried in it to be enough, which is unimaginable.

It was less than an hour after he suddenly received the news that the Chinese people were testing the aerospace plane to witnessing the clouds entering orbit, and it was still hard for him to believe that this incident had happened in front of him.

Although the aerospace plane and the starship are completely two ideas, the upper limit and the field of superiority almost do not coincide, but judging from the way of entering the orbit shown by Tengyun, the cost of launching one must be extremely cheap, and the maximum is only 1 million US dollars, which is impossible for a rocket to do.

Even if they charge $10 million, the ticket price for 10 passengers is only $1 million, which is a devastating blow to all the world's orbital space tourism services, including themselves.

Both SpecaX and NACA are thrilled that the Gravity Dragon spacecraft has been in low-Earth orbit for a month, during which time it has conducted four cable retraction tests, with the longest continuous operation lasting more than 16 days without any failures.

Musk has already planned the next moon tourism service, and the two Falcon 9 rockets will send a "gravity dragon" and a thruster respectively, stay on the moon for about 7 to 15 days, and can also enjoy comfortable gravity, which will definitely attract more tourists as a selling point.

However, although Tengyun cannot go to the moon, the low-earth orbit tourism service alone can already make them a lot of money in the market that has skyrocketed dozens of times, and may even monopolize the low-earth orbit business, where no spacecraft can compare with the cost performance.

What's even more terrifying is that SpecaX has no aviation technology accumulation at all, and is simply unable to compete in the space field, and is powerless to fight back for a while.

He thought of Tom, who gave him confidence every time he couldn't make up his mind, and was about to get up to look for it, when he saw that the latter had pushed open the door and knocked a few times.

"I know the key to his success, it's the air, the engine!

Tengyun's engine tail nozzle uses a ring-shaped air tip engine, so it can always work in the best efficiency range to save fuel. ”

"Tom, but aerospace planes need more than just air-tip engines, and even the technology of the atmosphere is beyond the capabilities of Aramco."

"Just not now, cheer up, I'm sure NACA is already preparing to summon us.

Moreover, aerospace aircraft can only encroach on a part of our business for a short time, which is a devastating blow to others. ”

……

Capital.

Academician She circled around Lin Ju, who had just gotten off the plane, two or three times, looking up and down while constantly making a "tsk" sound.

The latter was confused, and also turned around:

"What's the matter, I haven't seen you for half a month and you don't know me?"

"I don't know."

Academician She said with a serious face:

"If I couldn't leave here, I should have gone to yours, to be honest, I didn't even believe it when Tengyun was in orbit.

How do you feel that you Xinyuan Company can do anything, you shouldn't be an alien impersonation? ”

“……”

"Ahem, then even if I am an alien, I am also an alien, an old friend of the Chinese people."

"That's right, there is no military parade this year, otherwise you have to stand on the city gate tower with this, and you have to lean in the middle."

"Just make it up in two years, I'll remember."

It took a long time for the old and the young to stop the gag and leave the airport, which was extremely crowded because of the November Golden Week.

Both of them are in a very good mood, and so are the people of the whole country and above.

This is different from previous space missions, whether it is a space station, lunar exploration or space tourism, it has little to do with ordinary people, even if it is tens of millions of yuan "cheap" is out of reach.

But the aerospace plane is different, it sounds much more accessible than a rocket, and it has already left a good impression on people in previous science fiction and movies, and it is difficult not to arouse reverie.

Even if it is calculated according to ten times the amount of the air ticket, tens of thousands of yuan, or even hundreds of thousands of yuan, there are at least hundreds of millions of people in China who can and are willing to come up with this money, which can be called "for the public".

Just in time for the seven-day holiday, people who are busy traveling naturally want to ask:

In addition to Zhangjiakou and Jiuzhaigou, which are crowded with people, is it possible for us to go to places with fewer people to see the scenery of the whole country at one time?

The replies below several aerospace officials are basically these news, "ordinary people go to space" is expected to become a reality, and the simple people are still very concerned.

But Lin Ju and Academician She both know that this is still far away, and the early few aerospace planes are inseparable from the official mission requirements alone, and there is almost no upper limit, and it is actually a loss to use it for space tourism, at least until 10 are mass-produced before there is a possibility of implementation.

In addition, you have to protect your own manned space service, and there are several private space people who are tinkering with manned spacecraft/space shuttles, so don't really kill your own friendly troops like a dreadnought.

It's you: Evergrande.

Stellar aerospace is now also impressive, the first "Pegasus" small space shuttle atmosphere verification aircraft has flown over, Xu Jiayin publicly announced that it will make its first flight before the New Year, but don't accidentally crush the unborn Pegasus to half death.

Therefore, Lin Ju rushed over again in order to ventilate other companies that were surprised and scared: just like Xinyuan has not received many small and micro launch missions, the Aviation Development Commission will not use Tengyun to stir up the situation.

The other is to adjust the next space program, especially the Mars and lunar exploration missions, the budgets of these two big money-eaters can be compressed, and it is not expensive to use cheap vehicles, but it is estimated that the size and weight standards of the probes will be reformulated.

"Elder She, what is the result of the demonstration of Plan Five?"

"What's that?"

Academician She thought for a while, and finally said:

"This plan has caused a lot of controversy, and there are two main issues, the first is whether the service life can be sustained and whether the working conditions can meet the requirements, and the second is about the degree of impact on the subsequent manned mission.

If the use of humanoid robots for large-scale construction in advance is indeed of great help, but the social impact and related supporting planning are more troublesome. ”

(End of chapter)