United Mining Headquarters.

As for building a good relationship with these cutting-edge scientists as much as possible, of course, China raised its hands in favor, but also considered that too many of them might cause unnecessary trouble, so Ye Changsi's proposal to sign a consulting contract with Xinyuan was successfully passed.

But despite receiving a stipend from Xinyuan, the scientists are nominally the United Space Mining Development Corporation and Scientific Advisory Committee (UCSC).

After only one day, more than 100 scientists decided to sign the association, and all of them gathered at the headquarters of United Mining to sign the centralized agreement.

Wu Yunfeng was afraid that he would not be able to hold back his emotions, and he kept his head down and did not dare to look at everyone, but Ye Changsi's face was as usual, and he faced everyone one by one to confirm the agreement.

The first person is, of course, the most active Stephen Hawking, his personal doctor resolutely refused after hearing his idea of going to space, but Ye Changsi assured him that it would take less than 2 hours to take off from the capital by supersonic passenger plane to the base aerospace plane, and he could act secretly when the time came.

Since he was unable to sign the contract, Penrose wrote his name on his behalf, then grabbed Hawking's thumb and pressed the ink on it, and lightly stamped it on the place of his name.

The moment he pressed it, he felt Hawking's body twitch, but immediately thought it was his own delusion, put down his hand and asked:

"Steven, let's get ready for a trip to space...... Steven? ”

The light outside the window swept over the frames of Hawking's glasses, revealing a different pair of eyes.

He silently sent some information to Penrose with his eyes, but the latter only took Hawking tired and took the pen seriously, and wrote his signature on his contract.

The moment he put the pen away, his hand trembled imperceptibly.

Turning back to look at Hawking, both of them saw the craziest conclusion in each other's calm eyes.

But Penrose simply got up and pushed the wheelchair to sit in the rest area, and watched silently with Hawking as the people signed the contracts in order.

"Universe...... More magical than we thought. ”

Hawking typed this line on the screen, Penrose crossed his hands and nodded, what had just happened refreshed his scientific understanding for more than half a century, which was even more exaggerated than the theory of the cosmic cycle that life never ends.

The binding force of the system is very simple, and their minds are still completely free.

Penrose was now instinctively trying to find theories to explain what had come his way, but he couldn't find a clue.

More and more people walked towards the rest area, and although everyone's expressions were not abnormal, they could tell their status by looking at them as long as they were "their own people".

When Frank Young came and sat down beside Penrose, he whispered in English at a very fast pace:

"I'm starting to believe in God now."

Penrose: "But I think God is who we are. ”

After the two finished speaking, they tacitly glanced at each other, and their eyes became deep again.

When all 155 people completed the signing of the contract, Ye Changsi walked in front of everyone with a smile:

"Guys, I think we can have a plenary meeting of the Advisory Board right away, in a quiet place.

It just so happens that everyone is going to space, why don't you go to the base of Xinyuan Company for some simple astronautical knowledge training? ”

All agreed.

……

"Oh God!"

Robert shook his head and looked at the news video on the page, a little unable to believe his eyes.

This is a video posted on YouTube by a Chinese self-media, starting in a not wide river valley, and then two of their J-20 fighters flew in the air, the first J-20 began to dive when it approached, and then a large cloud of smoke came out from under the wings, and it quickly pulled up after emptying the two rocket nests.

The second fired a round of rockets, both of which hit an area of the pass, causing a huge explosion that immediately washed the surrounding mud into the river, which soon widened.

The screen then turns to a converted river semi-submersible boat passing by here a few hours later, and its first and second stage rocket bodies painted "CZ-18B/X-4B" are on it, and its huge body feels like it will sink at any moment.

In fact, the total weight of the rocket body is only more than 340 tons, and the dry mass of the core level not counting the booster is close to 30, which is amazingly light, and the semi-submersible ship that has been temporarily modified can easily cope with it, and it can basically be navigable in the river.

There is also a picture of the semi-submersible ship passing through a pass under several auxiliary vessels, and sometimes the shore can be seen filled with people watching the bustle.

But unlike ordinary citizens who watched the excitement and sighed at the Xinyuan-4 rocket body, and then took photos and posted them on the Internet, Robert only felt a numb scalp and a cold sweat.

That monster with a take-off mass of 15,000 tons was really made!

Although he had revealed a lot of rumors before, he didn't want to believe that such a monster really existed until he saw the real thing.

Just from the naked eye, he can determine that the take-off mass is definitely more than 10,000 tons, plus four solid boosters are more than 15,000 tons.

What's even more amazing is that the Xinyuan-4 rocket transportation is not covered with a tarpaulin (I can't find it so big for a while), which shows that its rocket body is very strong and can easily resist the water-soaked environment, and it should be a special design for water recycling.

“damn…… Jim, Jim! ”

Deputy Director Jim hurriedly ran over, and then he learned that the Xinyuan-4 rocket had been shipped out, which means that the launch time will not be too far!

The two looked at each other, and finally Robert gritted his teeth and said:

"How's the first SL-X ready? We must launch it within November. ”

Today is October 31st, and there are still two months to go until the New Year.

Jim: "Blue Origin is no problem, we have produced three trials in the last two months and are constantly revising the design structure, Artemis II's black box has provided us with a wealth of data on improvements, the new lander is absolutely fine, just use the last production trial!"

As for the rocket, we just completed the integrated water injection intensity test of the B11 and ICPS models three days ago, and it has been completely passed. ”

"Then immediately prepare the launch procedure, if the Chinese continue to launch larger and larger rockets and we have not had a successful launch for half a year, I am afraid that you will replace me here next year."

Robert had a headache when he remembered the image of Claire being impeached in Congress, and he didn't want to do it again.

"Also, think of a way to try the moon landing again this year."

Mobile phone code word in the car, annoyed......

(End of chapter)