Great Country Academician

Xinghai Research Institute, in the reception room.

Director Wu Yuankang of the Space Administration rushed over with his assistant and a member of the diplomatic staff.

"Academician Xu, I heard that you have been studying academic problems recently. Is it going well?"

In the reception room, looking at Xu Chuan who was sitting there flipping through information, Wu Yuankang stepped forward with a smile, greeted him warmly, and asked with concern.

His enthusiasm is also related to the perfect success of manned spaceflight and moon landing projects.

After all, whether it is manned space activities or the imprint of Chinese civilization on that land, including the rescue operation of two astronauts from NASA, they are all achievements.

Regardless, these projects and operations were completed under his leadership. As the director of the space agency, he is not only the biggest beneficiary, but also one of the first.

What's more, there will be follow-up super projects such as the lunar biosphere project and the lunar scientific research outpost base. Although the large-scale lunar base project is directly under the National Academy of Sciences, it is ultimately inseparable from aerospace.

And for now, all of this depends on the person in front of me.

Xu Chuan smiled and shook hands with Wu Yuankang, and said: "It's not bad. Today's cooperation with the Middle East is really troublesome for the space agency."

Wu Yuankang smiled and nodded, saying: "These are all trivial matters. The scientific research work is the real troublesome thing."

Xu Chuan smiled and didn't care about Wu Yuankang's flattery.

At this moment, the door of the reception room was pushed open. Under the guidance of Weng Yunzong and Qin Yue, several middle-aged men wearing turbans walked in.

When he saw the people standing in the room, the hazel eyes of a middle-aged man with a white turban and beard walking in the team suddenly brightened up.

"Professor, several representatives from the Middle East have arrived." Qin Yue walked in front and said softly, introducing the people in the team behind him and the corresponding countries.

Xu Chuan nodded, stepped forward, stretched out his hand and greeted with a smile: "Welcome, Prince Faisal, welcome to your arrival."

Opposite, a middle-aged man standing in the C position of the crowd walked out quickly with a smile on his face. He warmly stretched out his hand and held it tightly, saying, "Hello, Professor Xu. May peace be with you."

For people in the Middle East, many people believe in Islam, and when they say hello in daily life, they say God bless you and so on.

However, when they met for the first time, this middle-aged man who represented Saudi Arabia restrained his words about God and only expressed his blessings.

Xu Chuan smiled and stretched out his hand to gesture to the chair in the reception room, and said, "Thank you, take a seat first, Prince Faisal."

That's right, the core of this Middle East delegation is the middle-aged man in front of you, Faisal ibn Abdul ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul ·Rahman Saud, Prince of Saudi Arabia.

The name is very long. The first word Faisal is his real name, followed by his father's name, grandfather's name, place name, etc.

A prince personally came to discuss cooperation. Although it did not contain any other thoughts, it was enough to show that the Saudi region attached great importance to lunar cooperation.

Prince Faisal smiled and nodded, taking his seat with the team behind him.

After exchanging a few words and getting to know the representatives from various countries, Xu Chuan didn't waste any more time and looked at Wu Yuankang, Director of the Space Administration, who was sitting next to him.

He was the one who contacted the people in the Middle East. He originally planned to take the lead in doing this with the Xinghai Research Institute.

But later countries took over, and the lunar biosphere project expanded to the field of international cooperation. Then greeting representatives from the Middle East and negotiating the lunar project naturally moved to the space agency and diplomacy.

Wu Yuankang nodded, coughed slightly and said: "Prince Faisal, regarding the cooperation on this lunar surface project, due to the major matters involved, it has been transferred from the Xinghai Research Institute to China's G side, and will be managed by the space agency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Deal with it responsibly.”

Prince Faisal nodded, not paying much attention to this.

In fact, although he was attracted by Xu Chuan's idea of ​​building a resort hotel and scientific research base on the moon, on the one hand he wanted to meet this famous young scholar who was traveling to the moon, and on the other hand he wanted to meet the famous young scholar. I want to establish more cooperation with China.

Now that the lunar surface engineering project has been transferred to the Chinese Space Administration and diplomacy, it is better for them.

Although China developed controllable nuclear fusion, which broke their advantage of making money lying down, they should have been eager to kill each other.

But things are unpredictable. If you want to get rid of the control of the United States, you can only rely on them. Other countries do not have this ability.

The Middle East also has its own ideas.

After all, with the realization of controllable nuclear fusion technology, the value of crude oil is no longer as great as it used to be. Although the Middle East is still wealthy, the days of lying at home counting money have become a thing of the past.

In addition, in this era of drastic changes in the international landscape, the Middle East also wants to get rid of the control of the United States and become more independent.

It may be a better choice to expand cooperation with China and join this increasingly powerful red country.

This is the reason why he personally led the team here this time, to test their opinions and see if there is any hope.

In the reception room, Wu Yuankang, the diplomatic staff and representatives from the Middle East were discussing lunar cooperation matters.

".How about the cooperation on the lunar biosphere project is tentatively finalized and the detailed work on docking will be carried out later?"

With a smile on his face, Wu Yuankang initially finalized the cooperation plan for the lunar biosphere project.

I have to say that they did make a lot of money this time. These big families in Saudi Arabia are really rich. For a lunar biosphere project, Saudi Arabia alone invested 3.5 billion, and it was rice gold.

The combined investment of other countries in the Middle East reached a total of 7 billion meters of gold.

If the current exchange rate of rice gold to soft sister coins is about 1:4.5, it is almost 31.5 billion soft girls coins.

The plan for the lunar biosphere project is 200 billion. Based on this calculation, the Middle East alone will make up one-seventh of it.

As for the price, it is occupying the positions of 10 scientific researchers in the lunar biosphere project, and China is responsible for transporting their personnel.

And this transportation is not all free. During the negotiation, they preliminarily finalized the annual transportation quota, that is, how many people and materials will be transported free of charge by Xinghai Research Institute in a year.

Beyond this limit, if the Middle East needs to transport people or materials, additional costs will be incurred.

Sitting on the sofa, Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia nodded and said: "We are sincerely participating in the lunar biosphere project, but..."

After a slight pause, he looked at Xu Chuan and said, "On this basis, we have another request."

Although he didn't understand why the other party suddenly turned to him, Xu Chuan still smiled and motioned for the other party to speak: "Prince, please speak."

Prince Faisal smiled and said: "I heard that the Xinghai space shuttle you developed, Professor Xu, does not require high burden on astronauts during manned spaceflight. Even ordinary people can do it without training." It’s okay to ride, right?”

Xu Chuan glanced at him, nodded and replied: "Compared with traditional chemical fuel launch vehicles, Xinghai needs to spend more time climbing gravity wells during manned spaceflight. Therefore, it is sailing The acceleration formed during the process will not be very high, and generally does not exceed 3 G."

"So in theory, ordinary people without professional training can indeed take it to outer space."

Although it was not clear why the other party asked this, Xu Chuan still explained it briefly.

The Xinghai space shuttle does have the conditions to carry untrained ordinary people, and its comfort level can even catch up with traditional civil aviation aircraft in most cases.

On the opposite side, Prince Faisal raised the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "To be honest with Professor Xu, before reaching this cooperation on the lunar biosphere project, we want to take the Xinghai space shuttle into space for a trip."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment and looked at Prince Faisal in surprise.

He really didn't expect this.

After all, space travel is currently regarded as a "quite" risky thing by most people, and its risk factor is very high.

In fact, as early as the last century, when the Mi-Su competition successfully achieved manned spaceflight for the first time, some people had proposed the idea or plan of space travel or even deep space travel.

When we entered the 21st century, in 2001, many companies with the concept of space travel sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

For example, SpaceX founded by Elon Musk, Space Travel Company of Windmill Country, and Virgin Galactic Space Adventure Company founded by Richard Branson are all committed to lowering the price of space travel and making space travel accessible to ordinary people. dream.

Some companies even have concepts and are already doing it.

For example, Virgin Galactic Space Adventure Company has a spacecraft used to carry space tourists called "Spaceship 2", which is planned to carry 6 passengers.

Tourists will first receive training at the Mojave Space Launch Site in the Mojave Desert in California, USA, and then travel into space on a unique spacecraft.

When the spacecraft reaches an altitude of 15 kilometers, the mother ship "White Knight 2" will launch the manned spacecraft "SpaceShip 2" carrying the travelers. "SpaceShip 2" will then rise to an altitude of 110 kilometers. high in the sky and folding its wings to sail around the Earth.

In this orbit, travelers will experience weightlessness for about 6 minutes and get a bird's-eye view of the Earth above the dark universe.

But as of today, this is still a plan and has not been implemented.

Space travel is still a concept, and no company can send ordinary tourists into space. It can be seen that its risks and safety are still something that cannot be fully controlled.

Under such circumstances, it must be said that Prince Faisal's request indeed exceeded everyone's expectations.

PS: To make up for yesterday’s update, I was busy with some things during the Lantern Festival yesterday, so I didn’t have time to send out the leave request. Sorry.

Also: There will be another chapter for today’s update later, please give me a monthly pass by the way.