Silicon Valley

The time to watch has come!

With a loud bang, the rocket took off.

"Don't fall!!!"

Everyone at SpaceX is nervous at this moment.

The crowd who visited stood far away and looked at the rocket launch site. They saw thick smoke billowing, blazing flames from behind the rocket's butt, and then "whoosh" and soaring.

"Hi everyone, I'm Blake Stone, ABC TV reporter. We're broadcasting live from the SpaceX rocket launch site. As you can see, the 'Eagle 1' carrier rocket has been launched and is flying into space. The speed of the rocket Faster and faster, we can now only see a ray of light trailing from the rear of the rocket in the distance."

"Whether Flying Eagle 1 can be successfully launched, the next test has finally come."

"The rocket is going to rush out of the dense atmosphere, and the temperature generated by friction will be very high, about 4000-6000 degrees Celsius! Oh, such a high temperature is enough to burn a car in a short period of time. Although the rocket uses special protection High temperature material, but there are also many rockets that explode for this reason!!!”

At this moment, countless viewers across the United States watching the live broadcast of the rocket launch held their breaths, sweating for the Eagle-1 rocket.

"Mom, will the rocket launch successfully?" a five- or six-year-old cute girl looked up at her mother and asked.

The girl's mother gently touched her little head and laughed softly: "Honey, it will be successful, the rocket will be launched successfully!"

...

SpaceX's rocket launch center, at this time, a voice suddenly came from the broadcast: "The rocket is all normal, it has now rushed out of the atmosphere, the first-stage rocket fuel has been used up, and the second-stage rocket is starting..."

"The second stage rocket started to accelerate, the speed exceeded 7.9 kilometers per second, and it successfully escaped the earth's gravity!!!"

After a period of time, an excited voice came from the broadcast: "At 12:10:15 on May 1, 1993, the Feiying-1 carrier rocket successfully sent the communication satellite to the designated orbit!!!"

yes! ! !

All the employees of SpaceX jumped with excitement when they heard this sound!

"We made it!!!"

"We succeeded!!!!"

"..."

Many people hugged and laughed, hugged and cried, excited tears filled their eyes!

A reporter from ABC TV said to the camera: "As far as we know, the Eagle-1 carrier rocket manufactured by SpaceX is the rocket with the lowest cost but extremely high technology content! A SpaceX executive revealed that SpaceX It only costs $90 million to launch a rocket, and it is the only company in the industry whose rocket launch price is less than $100 million!"

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After the successful launch of the Eagle-1 carrier rocket, the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, and the U.S. military immediately became enthusiastic about SpaceX.

The representative of Motorola also smiled, "Mr. Henry Williams, is your company interested in the cooperation with the Iridium project?"

Henry smiled. Right now, SpaceX has signed fifteen orders with the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, the U.S. military, and Motorola, with a total value of $1.35 billion. The production of rockets alone has already been scheduled until 1995. .

Immediately, SpaceX held a party to celebrate and revel.

Henry had a few drinks and left quietly.

Is it all right after the rocket launches? The satellite is still up there.

"Mr. Williams, the live satellite has now been activated. After our experiment, it can broadcast TV programs smoothly!"

"very good!"

Henry smiled and hung up the phone. Subsequently, he asked people to establish DirecTV, which is a TV operator. This live satellite is currently mainly used in Southeast Asia. Through DirecTV, Asia TV and ABC TV can be broadcast in Southeast Asia and other places, thereby expanding Henry's influence in Southeast Asia!

...

The next day, American newspapers reported on SpaceX.

Netizens are also talking about it.

"Fuck, the SpaceX company founded by Henry Williams can launch rockets, it's so awesome!!!"

"Yeah, it feels so high!"

"..."

Henry is sitting at a meeting at SpaceX at the moment.

At the meeting, Henry emphasized: "This success is only a small step, and we still have a long way to go! Our first goal is to develop a recoverable launch vehicle. If the rocket can be recovered, we will It can be used multiple times, which greatly reduces the cost!”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be shocked. This is a great idea, but it is not easy to recover the launch vehicle!

Everyone present couldn't help but discuss.

Henry said: "I will point you to the direction. It may not be possible with the current technology, but if the direction is clear, our research and development speed will be much faster!"

"That's it, let's go!"

After Henry announced the end of the meeting, he was the first to stand up and leave the conference room.

In the afternoon, he would also go to the headquarters of the Fund Umbrella. Rothman told him that a drug developed in the laboratory might be helpful to him.

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Gene Umbrella HQ, 4:50 p.m.

Henry came to the tenth underground floor, and Rothman took out a crystal bottle containing a golden liquid like oral liquid and placed it in front of Henry.

Rothman said: "Chairman, after our test, your cerebral cortex will produce a mysterious substance, and we have not yet figured out what it is, because its shape is very similar to the letter T under the microscope, so we temporarily Name it T-Substance!"

Rothman pointed to the bottle of potion on the table at this time, and said, "This is our special golden potion of neurotrophic factor. Taking it can suppress the growth rate of substance T! The manufacturing cost of this golden potion is very expensive. A 10ml golden potion costs $100,000, and drinking one a day costs more than $30 million a year..."

Hearing this, Henry couldn't help smacking his tongue secretly.

What is so expensive! ! !

Seeing Henry's surprised expression, Rothman explained: "We extract less than 0.01ml of trace elements from a large number of precious medicines through biotechnology, and then synthesize them into a rare medicine, so it will be so expensive!"

Henry nodded, took the bottle in his hand to observe, the golden liquid inside exuded a hint of luster.

"Does this really work?"

"It should be possible. We have conducted hundreds of experiments without any problems. However, this drug can only suppress the increase of T substance in your brain, and cannot kill or prevent it from increasing!" Rothman replied.

"oh, I understand now!"

Henry put the bottle on the table and asked Rossman, "How much of this golden potion is produced now?"

"There are only 20 bottles for now," said Rothman, "but don't worry, we can produce 5 bottles a day!"

At this time, Rothman waved to a researcher not far away, and then the researcher came over with a silver safe.

Rothman took it, put it on the table, turned the number, adjusted the password, opened the box, and saw that there were 19 potions inside. Rothman put the single potion on the table, which was just full.

"Chairman, you can take it with you when you leave later!" Rothman pushed the safe in front of Henry, "The password is your birthday!"

Henry nodded and closed the box.

After that, Henry did a full-body examination here, and then left here with the suitcase.

As soon as Henry left, several professors in their sixties walked up to Rothman and said, "Rosman, is it really correct for us to do this?"

Rossman's expression was completely different from before, showing excitement and excitement.

"Professor Douglas, don't you think T-substance is amazing? Why stop it? You and I both know that T-substance will change the world!!!" Rothman shouted frantically.

Rothman didn't tell Henry the whole truth. The golden potion was indeed very precious and invaluable, but one thing was added to it--substance T.

(To be continued ~^~.)