I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

On June 7, NASA announced that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) had identified four locations suitable for manned landings that are rich in resources and contain water in the form of ice.

LRO is an old thing. It was launched in 2009 and was designed to provide assistance for manned moon landings. It has been operating for 7 years now and is in good condition.

At the same time, Aramco's Westminster, Colorado, Maxar company said that it has officially begun development of a 60KW electric propulsion spacecraft for the lunar "Gateway" International Space Station.

The Artemis Project was originally a cooperative project planned to bring together Europe and island countries after NACA lost its scientific research capabilities, which would save money and reduce its own burden.

But since last year, Congress has directly increased the budget for the Artemis program to US$60 billion, and other related projects have accumulated a total of US$40 billion.

In 2016, NASA's approved funding was US$40.1 billion.

With the support of a huge amount of funds, NASA can leisurely expand again and support a large number of subordinate supporting companies like the Apollo program. This year's Aramco economic growth is said to hit a 15-year high.

Of course, technology has not fallen behind. The BE-7 and 12-ton-thrust engines prepared by Blue Origin for the "Blue Moon" lander have completed prototype trial production and are about to undergo test runs.

However, the BE-4 heavy-duty liquid oxygen methane engine is still somewhat difficult to produce. Blue Origin engineers were originally planning to conduct a test run in May, but were suddenly stopped and brought back to the factory for modifications.

However, here at Lao Ma, the basic parameters of the first-generation Raptor have been announced. It is a 180-ton liquid oxygen methane engine, full-flow combustion, and the starship SN-1 will be tested as a pressure test prototype ship in October.

Lao Ma’s ultimate PPT is here. In his promotion, starships of different sizes will be able to carry out landings on the moon and Mars, large-scale immigration missions, and can also fly in the atmosphere. They can do both in the form of ballistic missiles. Reach the world within hours.

To the outside world, Starship and the H2 nuclear-powered space shuttle that Xinyuan has announced seem to be going in two different directions.

One is the old-school route, which is traditional and advanced, with nuclear power and long-distance travel, in line with the imagination of the future;

One is a stainless steel god, which is thick and bulky and looks difficult to fly.

Of course, this is all because Xinyuan has hidden a lot of information. Even the Qianjin Space Station only knows it in a small area. If a little information is leaked, it will be considered a super PPT pie.

When the XN90 spacecraft comes out, I'm afraid people will wonder if they have suddenly traveled through time in a science fiction movie, and what they see is a spaceship that only exists in movies and TV series.

I just don’t know if it was the blond old man who was yelling “Tear that down” at that time.

The situation in China is similar. Xinyuan and the Space Administration have directly invested hundreds of billions, and the supporting facilities have leveraged an industrial scale of at least one trillion yuan.

This year, 9 private aerospace companies have joined the Aerospace Development Commission (except Xinyuan), which has reached the level of 10 years later.

Among them, Huizhou-based Galaxy Power has announced its own small solid rocket, which is expected to make its first flight early next year.

It's just that although these private companies have also received a lot of financial and technical support with the trend, their development is far less exaggerated than that of Xinyuan, and they can't even keep up with the speed of copying PPT.

June 12, B-level base.

More than 110 people from all walks of life from the four member countries of the Hila Space Station stood beside the runway with joy. Arab National Television was specially allowed to enter and film.

At the end of the runway, the nose of the An-1250 was raised, like a giant beast opening its mouth and swallowing a disassembled Xinyuan-2 piece by piece.

A heavy-duty rocket with a take-off weight of 1,300 tons, the An-1250 cargo bay can be swallowed completely from the first-stage engine to the cone fairing.

Originally, it could be transported by IL-76, but Abel specifically requested to use An-1250, and did not pay a freight fee of up to 500,000 US dollars for this transportation.

Of course, not only the rocket, but also senior personnel from the space agencies of the four countries and 13 highly respected clergy will escort the rocket.

Since the space shuttle Mecca is also on the back of the aircraft, the An-1250 will launch all the components for the manned launch in Aber at one time. Only the No. 5 module of the Hila Space Station will be transported separately by the IL-76 because of the fixed points on the back of the aircraft. occupied.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, both the rocket and the space shuttle were fixed. Prince Sweetan stood in front of the wide-open nose and looked at the exquisite green scriptures on the surface of the rocket in ecstasy.

Abbott specially invited two painters from Yemen who they considered to be the best, and used the paint provided by Xinyuan to write the Quran on the entire rocket.

The two painters worked tirelessly and prayed before writing scriptures. It took them more than half a month to complete the most complex rocket painting in the world.

But it has to be said that it is really exquisite. Most of these specially prepared pigments will disappear in the high temperature of violent friction in the atmosphere during recycling, leaving only some words that have been specially strengthened to form a sentence and be displayed as a miracle.

Surrounded by a group of white-turbaned brothers, Prince Sweetan handed over the memorandum of the escort handover plan for several countries on behalf of the Arab Air Force. It also meant that at least from this moment on, the rockets and space shuttles belonging to Arab Air Force were truly It's going to be erected in Arbor.

Next to Lin Ju, leaders from the space agency and the Western Military Region responded.

Then the open mouth of An 1250 like a giant beast slowly closed, and the upper and lower hatches connecting the personnel to the elevator channel opened.

Prince Sweetan and other senior officials of the National Space Administration will fly together randomly and finally land at the airport in Riyadh, the capital of Arabia.

The total flight time is 9 hours, during which a total of 32 people, including a 6-person rotation crew, 4 auxiliary personnel, and 8 Xinyuan engineers, will arrive together.

As for why I didn’t see Crown Prince Hamand?

The old king Alert became critically ill last month, and Hamand had to fly back urgently, ready to take over power at any time.

Although it might be a bit rebellious, Lin Ju always believed that this might be a good thing for Crown Prince Hamand, so that no one would stop him from going to heaven.

But King Aber is going to space? Hiss...it sounds exciting.

In the waiting area behind An 1250, Xinyuan's modified ARJ21 business jet also began to take on personnel. It will return with more than 20 other Arbor personnel, but it will have to stop for refueling midway.

At 11:40 noon, air traffic control indicated that it was okay to take off. An 1250 took off from the runway with a full belly of spacecraft and dignitaries from several countries.

For this flight, 400 tons of fuel were added to the An-1250, and the take-off mass reached 1,020 tons. People who often watch take-offs can feel that the sound of breaking through the air is heavier.

Plane B4143 took off with Abel's space dream.

Nine hours later, it is only three or four o'clock in the afternoon in Aber, when the sun is at its best, and more than 20,000 people will pour into Riyadh Airport to hold a grand welcome ceremony for B4143.