Chapter 176: Space Center
These two basically represent the most important leaders of the Kennedy Space Center, and they greeted Yu Ze in person, which shows the importance they attach to Yu Ze.
It is estimated that the reason why these two agreed to Yu Ze's visit and opened the private area must have been authorized by the White House, otherwise they would not dare to receive Yu Ze with great fanfare.
After shaking hands with the two officials from the Kennedy Space Center, Yu Ze and his entourage began their tour under their leadership. The entire space center is 56 kilometers long from north to south, 20 kilometers wide from east to west, covers an area of 567 square kilometers, and a total of 17,000 people work here.
There are rocket, satellite, spacecraft assembly and testing plants in the technical position, and what particularly attracts Yu Ze's attention is the assembly building, which has a height of 160 meters to assemble rockets, and the building is equipped with a dazzling array of advanced testing instruments and assembly equipment.
The launch site is 6 kilometers away from the technical position, with a launch control center and a launch pad, and the entire space center actually has 23 launch positions, which can theoretically launch more than a dozen rockets at the same time. Naturally, this is only theoretical, and in practice, only one rocket is launched at a time, and the scene of launching more than a dozen rockets at the same time is only in the movie, and then there is only time for a nuclear war.
At the Visitors' Center, Yu Ze continued to visit several museums, two IAMX movie theaters, a rebuilt Saturn 5 rocket, and even experienced the Apollo moon landing in virtual VR.
"Mr. Yu, what do you think of here?"
Bob, the director of the space center, looked at Yu Ze with a smile.
"It's good, it's fun."
Yu Ze really found it interesting here, which made up for a lot of his aerospace knowledge.
"One thing I want to ask, as far as I know, NASA established a Planetary Defense Coordination Office PDCO in 2016, which is responsible for mobilizing all space agency capabilities to classify, monitor, and track various celestial objects that threaten the Earth?"
Yu Ze's fluttering words made Bob, a good gentleman, stunned for a moment, and replied after a few seconds: "Yes, PDCO office, I know this." ”
"Where is the head of the PDCO office?"
Yu Ze asked again.
Bob was silent and shrugged: "The office of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office is not located here, as we all know, it is at NASA headquarters in Washington, why is Mr. Yu suddenly interested in asking this?" ”
"I'm curious about this, and I want to learn more about planetary defense."
Yu Ze's explanation didn't seem to make Bob relieve his doubts, but because of Yu Ze's identity, he couldn't ask back.
After continuing to visit for a while, just when Yu Ze felt that the note was a little strange for him to come to the Kennedy Space Center, a middle-aged Italian man in a suit and leather shoes, brown and black hair, and black eyes stepped forward and was immediately stopped by Yu Ze's guards.
"It's Mr. Barton."
Bob seemed to know the man, and explained to Yu Ze, "That's Mr. Patton, an assistant at the National Science Foundation NSF. ”
"Is it Mr. Yu?"
Mr. Barton exclaimed, "How lucky to have met you here!" ”
Yu Ze's thoughts had already swept the man several times, knowing that the other party was not threatening, and motioned for the guards to let him over.
"Mr. Barton, why are you here?"
Bob was a little confused about the timing of Barton's appearance.
"I need to be here for something, but I'll talk to you later...... Now the main thing is, who do I see? Mr. Yu, the first superpowered person ever, the first confirmed superpower, saved the savior of thousands of Americans! ”
Barton's expression was exaggerated, which made Yu Ze quite uncomfortable.
But what Barton said next made Yu Ze's heart froze.
"So what is this, it should be God's will for us to meet here, right?"
On the one hand, Patton's words made Yu Ze reverie, and on the other hand, his eyebrows and eyebrows made him speechless.
On the contrary, Bob seemed to know who Barton was, and he was not surprised by this, and he said helplessly: "Mr. Barton, please leave immediately, don't disturb ......"
"No, I'm fine, I think Mr. Barton is good."
Yu Ze interrupted Bob's words, and sure enough, Barton immediately said, "Mr. Yu, it seems that you like aerospace very much, do you want me to be your tour guide?" To be honest, I'm too familiar with this place, more than Director Bob, and let me act as a tour guide to explain the history of the Kennedy Space Center over the decades better than he should. ”
Bob: "......"
"Absolutely."
Yu Ze did not refuse, and the boastful Barton immediately took over Bob's work, crowded around Yu Ze, and explained to him various interesting stories about the Kennedy Space Center, yes, it was not the "scandal" that the public should know, Bob's face darkened when he heard it, but because Yu Ze listened with great interest, he was not easy to interrupt.
In the end, Bob, who couldn't bear it, could only close the distance, he really couldn't stand this guy comparing him to the top three worst space center directors in history.
As soon as Bob left, Barton's words changed, and his tone took on a respectful tone: "Savior, I've been waiting for you here for a long time, according to the oracle, you need to go to Washington next to meet with Grunfield, the head of the PDCO office, you need to let him experience the existence of God and understand your status as a savior." ”
Yu Ze looked at Barton with a complicated expression: "You are also a member of the Future of Humanity Foundation?" ”
"Yes, I am."
Barton admitted without hesitation.
"But how am I going to get to Washington, the dinner that your president invited me to has been canceled."
When Yu Ze said this, he was a little strange, since his future self could influence this Mr. Patton, why didn't he also influence the person in charge of the PDCO office by the way?
Unless...... It's not that I don't want to, but I can't?
There is a flaw in going back to time and space through human memory, if the person concerned has long since died, then the only way to influence the person is to go back to time and space through the memory of the person's friends. This method also has a huge limitation, Yu Ze found out when he retraced his memory, his perspective can only follow the entire memory, and can not move freely, the dead person, through the third party to influence the memory, it is quite difficult, far less than directly "modifying" the memory of the retrospective.
What can't be done...... That is, the person concerned dies in the future.
"Don't worry about this, Your Excellency the President will definitely invite you again, you are the most legendary person in the world at the moment, and he will not let go of your hot spot."
Barton wasn't worried, "When you come to Washington, I'll do everything I can to get you and Grunfield to meet." ”
After saying this, Barton changed his words again, only because Bob in the back couldn't help but walk.
(End of chapter)