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Merica, NASA Roundtable Hall.

Outside, the rain kept falling, and the atmosphere inside the conference hall was not exactly harmonious.

Or rather, they were waiting for news.

He was dragged out of bed in the middle of the night, told to watch some space launch, or other.

He's busy as hell every day, where does he have time to care about this? This should be NASA's business.

If he, the president, paid attention to this every day, wouldn't he become the director of NASA?

Then what would be the point of having a real NASA director?

But today's matter really isn't something a NASA director can decide, because the director himself has been surrounded by people from the Department of Defense.

"Has the news come out yet?" an army general asked.

"Soon, soon," Jim said, wiping his sweat.

As the director of NASA, although he was on this side and had been completing the task of pulling everyone in NASA over to this side, as the director, he was also competent. He managed to get a lot of funding for NASA.

As the director of NASA, he naturally paid attention to the first flight live broadcast of "Dart X", even though Merica's synchronized time was in the middle of the night.

But what he didn't expect was that while a group of aerospace scientists and engineers were staring at the data studying technical details, a group of military police surrounded the place, and then several generals came, representing the Department of Defense.

They came up and asked: "The space fighter has entered space orbit, why didn't you give a warning?!"

A group of scientists, including Jim, were all: "????"

The generals from the Department of Defense wouldn't let them overthink, immediately took control of a command hall, and then took several administrative and technical leaders from NASA on site into the roundtable hall.

Seeing the scientists looking dazed, General John of the Space Force thought they didn't know the information about the "Dart X" launch, so he said in a tone of disappointment: "As staff of a space agency, your information sensitivity is too low. Dave, show them the video."

"Yes, sir!"

The young officer in military uniform ran to the front with a laptop, connected to the office's main computer and uploaded the video.

Originally, the aerospace scientists and engineers, as well as Jim, saw these people so nervous, they also became nervous, really thinking they had missed some key aerospace information.

But when they looked at it, wasn't this just the test flight video of "Dart X"?

And the edited version at that.

They had watched the entire live broadcast without missing a single detail.

But what did those generals just say?

Don't be silly, that's just a space vehicle!

Although the technology is advanced, it is full of the characteristics of a spacecraft - it has no ability to perform too many random maneuvers in the sky and in space, as that would consume too much fuel.

As researchers, they felt they had a duty to do some popular science for these big-headed soldiers.

Several people wanted to speak, but an older one moved quickly and immediately said: "Generals, please allow me to clarify, this is not a space fighter, this is just a manned spacecraft..."

But before he could finish speaking, General John interrupted him and said: "Alright, we are soldiers, we know better than you what is a weapon and what has not become a weapon."

"Our X-37B can become an 'orbital bomber', this aircraft can naturally do the same. Both aircraft have a carrying capacity of two tons, and what the X-37B can carry, it can also carry, including laser weapons, missiles, and bombs."

"But, General, according to the design of 'Dart X', it simply does not have the ability to maintain deterrence in orbit for a long time. The electricity it stores is only enough for a few hours..."

The scientists still wanted to explain something, but the generals simply wouldn't listen.

John waved his hand sternly and said: "Alright, we're not here to listen to your scientific principles, we just want to know if you can prove whether this thing that is as simple to maintain as an airplane and can enter space anytime, anywhere, is real? Or is it just another ridiculous strategic hoax?"

"If it's real, find it for me!"

The scientists simply couldn't argue with the soldiers, especially since the other party was a general in command, so they had no choice but to go look.

Thus, there was the previous scene.

These generals didn't know what the data meant, but they only needed to know that there was a space plane that might be carrying bombs floating over their heads, and they kept urging them every few seconds.

Even though "Dart X" didn't hide its location at all, and even actively reported its location to all directions, it couldn't stand the generals urging every few seconds.

What was clearly a matter of minutes was made by the generals into a feeling of not being able to complete the task for several days.

"Found it," a scientist suddenly received a message and waved to the generals, saying: "It is now in an orbit with a perigee of 378 kilometers and an apogee of 402 kilometers, the specific location... is passing over Merica's sky."

"Bang--"

General John's face twisted with anger upon hearing this, and he punched the conference table. "Shame, this is a shame for our Space Force!"

"If we also had..."

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Before he could finish venting his anger, the big screen in the conference room lit up, and the president's big head appeared inside.

Dragged out of bed in the middle of the night, everyone else had dark circles under their eyes, but he had rare white circles.

Wearing pajamas, with a tired expression, he frowned and asked in a very bad tone: "What exactly is going on? Why did someone tell me that a space fighter flew into space?"

Seeing this scene, before anyone else could react, John's furious expression immediately turned into frustration, and he admitted his mistake with a very sincere attitude.

"Mr. President, this is my fault. If the Space Force also had space fighters and had the command of the space center, the space fighter would not be flying in Merica's space."

Saying these words, John's face turned red, his face was full of regret, and even his eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, and tears overflowed, as if saying that he was extremely incompetent.

Hearing this, the president was completely energized, his whole body jolted, and he loudly asked John: "What did you say? The space fighter is right over our heads?"

"Yes, sir," John first admitted, and then explained: "But the scientists say it's just manned and there's basically no danger."

"You don't need to say anymore, no one knows spacecraft better than me, if it can carry people, it can carry bombs, that's a space fighter!"

The president became agitated, and thinking that there was such a thing hovering over his head, he couldn't sleep either.

Then he muttered a few words, no one heard what he said, only heard him shout: "Meeting, meeting, call everyone up, meeting!"

"We can't continue like this, we must come up with a counterattack strategy!"

With a final decision, he used a presidential privilege, and the special agents outside quickly moved. As long as the congressmen in the state were, they were all called up and taken away in black cars, rushing towards the Capitol.

It's not that he's making a fuss, he's determined to go to the sun, he really understands spaceflight.

The X-37B in the country sounds nice as an "orbital bomber", but it's actually just a mini space shuttle, and there's no essential difference from the "Dream Chaser" mini space shuttle that has been carrying cargo and has always wanted to carry people.

At first, they seemed quite advanced, but compared to "Dart X", they're just trash.

No matter how good the two models of mini space shuttles are, they are actually no different from the launch of ordinary rockets, equally troublesome, but "Dart X" is different. It's pulled out of the hangar that day, immediately filled with fuel, and then directly takes off from the runway, which is many times simpler than them.

If it can return safely and can be slightly repaired and take off again, not requiring it to complete inspection and refueling in one hour, even if it takes off again after a day, it is still quite terrifying.

And the place where it was designed and manufactured - Interstellar Pathfinder Company, must find a way to sanction it, and not let it develop like that anymore.

o(╥﹏╥)o Sorry, there's only one update today, because my computer crashed, and I spent a long time fixing it, and I lost a lot of things...