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Humans have a characteristic of "loving the new and loathing the old." No matter how many people claim to be nostalgic, there are still more who prefer the new.

Take the naval enthusiasts of Tianxia as an example. Yesterday, they were all about "I only love the 055," today it's "I only like the 075," and tomorrow it'll be "I'll always love the 003."

Moreover, the beloved warship shouldn't even be launched. The moment it's launched, even for just a minute, it will immediately transform from "sweetheart" to "old hag," and the military fans will immediately fall in love with the next model.

This situation is now spreading to the moon.

Previously, because Tianxia and Meruiken were each going to complete a manned lunar landing within half a month, people were intently focused on the moon.

When Tianxia successfully landed on the moon, and the astronauts moved into the lunar base to carry out various scientific experiments, people's attention to the moon continued to rise.

They weren't interested in the scientific experiments themselves; they were simply interested in the fact that "people can live on the moon."

If astronauts can live on the moon, then ordinary people certainly can too.

After all, the space station was originally for astronauts to live in, but later it also opened up a commercial model, and now it even has a commercial space station specifically for space tourism.

So the moon should also follow this model.

Moreover, Navigator Aerospace is involved throughout the entire process. Based on people's understanding of Navigator, the progress of lunar commercial tourism will definitely be faster than the progress of space station commercial tourism was initially.

As for how much it will cost to go to the moon and what entertainment there will be on the moon, most people don't care; they just want to watch the excitement.

However, some people are really taking it to heart.

These are the people who were originally planning to spend tens of millions of dollars on space tourism.

According to Navigator's space tourism pricing, one million dollars can get you a trip to space, and a few million dollars can get you a day at the Starry Sky Inn, so tens of millions of dollars should get you to the moon, right?

These people were already planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to go to space, so if they could use that money to land on the moon, wouldn't that be a huge bargain?

The cost of lunar travel is really hard to calculate. After all, the money spent on sending astronauts to the moon isn't the entire cost. There are many things for which the funds cannot be calculated, so we won't use the official cost of astronauts landing on the moon as the standard.

As for other things, Elon Musk's Starship rocket sold tickets for lunar tourism during its development, but it wasn't really selling tickets for lunar tourism, but rather sponsorships.

The situation at the time was that Elon Musk said that the development of the Starship rocket would require about $5 billion, and a Sakura country (Japan) rich man was willing to bear 5% of it, or $250 million.

Since he was sponsoring so much money, he naturally had to be allowed to take a trip to the moon.

This rich man could not only go himself, but also bring 6-8 artists to enjoy the lunar scenery together.

Let's calculate based on a maximum of 9 people; that's about $27 million per person, which is similar to the early cost of space station tourism.

However, this space tour was under the banner of "first lunar circumnavigation." Whether it's the first or not is irrelevant, since it's already gone. The focus is on the "circumnavigation."

It means going around the moon a few times without landing. The cost of going around a few times is more than $27 million.

Navigator is always cheaper than others and likes to do things in one step, so some people analyze that when Navigator launches lunar travel in the future, it will definitely be cheaper than this, and you'll get more services.

Maybe this price will cover all lunar travel projects.

People were happy, and then Meruiken's lunar landing came, but just when people were about to cheer, the world suddenly "froze."

Meruiken's first return to the moon mission actually failed!

It failed, and it was only rescued through the cooperation of Navigator and Tianxia.

Just when people began to fear lunar landings again, Tang Chao landed on the moon.

He not only landed on the moon, but also brought Navigator's later lunar base construction plan.

Good heavens, it was dazzling.

After so much back and forth, except for those core enthusiasts who can continue to be excited about the moon, most other people have returned to their normal work and lives.

But Navigator, which has already entered a period of rapid development, can't possibly let them return to normal.

Previously, Navigator had actually been building infrastructure. Now that they have better production plants, more intelligent manufacturing equipment, and complete launch and take-off sites, how could they still develop slowly?

Yes, Tang Chao doesn't want Earth's technological level to take off directly in place, but rather to proceed step by step, because he's afraid that if technology ascends too quickly, some social problems won't be solved in time, and then negative effects will be produced.

But what Navigator has now hasn't exceeded people's imagination. It should have been realized decades ago in people's imagination, but because political forces withdrew from the aerospace field, the development of aerospace technology slowed down.

Aerospace development has already been very slow, and has even regressed from some perspectives. Meruiken's failed lunar landing can prove this. What Navigator is doing now is just making up for the progress.

After Tang Chao returned to Earth, the plan he had previously made began to operate.

The things he mentioned in the live broadcast weren't just talk. The space station needs to be upgraded, and it's definitely not just about building it bigger.

Building it bigger isn't called upgrading; only upgrading the experience to a higher level is called upgrading.

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How to upgrade the space station?

Gravity!

Is a zero-gravity environment novel?

It's novel!

But it's only a matter of a few days. After a few days, you'll know how troublesome a zero-gravity environment is.

Humans are in a state of weightlessness in space, not because humans want to be in a state of weightlessness, but because humans can't change this situation.

If a device is added to the space station to allow it to have a space where gravity can be obtained, then astronauts can go to the zero-gravity environment when they need a zero-gravity environment, and go to the gravity space when they don't need weightlessness.

Moreover, after studying the topic of "what changes will occur in humans in a state of weightlessness" for so long, it's time to study the topic of "what changes will occur in humans after obtaining gravity in space."

So a small simulated gravity cabin should appear.

According to the plan, this thing shouldn't appear in the near future; it should be no earlier than next year. But there's no way around it. After various basic manufacturing equipment are upgraded, Navigator now makes things too fast.

This simulated gravity cabin can be folded into one piece. The diameter after folding is only less than 14 meters, but the fairing it uses is 15 meters in diameter.

This leads to another problem, that is, Navigator's thickest rocket is now the Yuanhang, but its core stage diameter is only 5 meters, plus two boosters of the same specifications, the width is less than 16 meters.

This 16 meters is only the "width", its "thickness" is still 5 meters, but the fairing is calculated according to the diameter.

This is equivalent to a "giant" whose body is 5 meters thick, and whose two arms are also 5 meters thick, arranged to be 15 meters. Its neck is as thick as its body, both 5 meters, but it has a head 20 meters high and 14 meters in diameter on top.

Is this good?

This is not good!

But Navigator can only use it for launch now. Although it's guaranteed to be successful, it does look dangerous.

Moreover, a 5-meter diameter rocket does limit the overall carrying capacity of the components.

When humans can't directly carry out space construction, the overall transportation of some components is still an important means, so Navigator needs a larger rocket.

Fortunately, it's already being designed and built, a super large rocket!