Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

After hearing what Lindbergh said, everyone in the conference room couldn't help but look at each other.

The Germans actually started looking for talents in this field as early as ten years ago? !

"These stupid guys!" the vice president cursed bitterly. This "space expert" Goddard was ostensibly poached by the German company "Zeus", but isn't the boss behind "Zeus" the German Crown Prince? . The person who can be poached by the German Crown Prince must be an outstanding top talent, but such a talent is actually collectively ridiculed by a group of ignorant domestic media. It is equivalent to these bastards running away from such a precious talent! It’s not an exaggeration to label these bastards as traitors!

As the vice president cursed these media people, Marshall sighed deeply. "I'm afraid he is not the only one who has been poached by the Germans."

More than ten years ago, the United States encountered a huge economic crisis. The domestic economy suffered a heavy blow. The lives of Americans who were originally immersed in affluence and the longing for a better life suffered tremendous changes. Fortune magazine estimated in September 1932 that 34 million adult men, women and children in the United States had no income at that time, nearly 28% of the population. This number does not include the 11 million farmers at the bottom of society.

For the first time since 1931, the number of immigrants leaving the United States exceeded the number of immigrants entering the United States. Throughout the 1930s, the United States admitted only 80,000 new immigrants, while in the 1920s, this number was 70,000.

During the Great Depression, the Soviet Union had an agency in New York called the Soviet-American Trading Company, which received an average of 350 applications for emigration to the Soviet Union every day. Based on this calculation, there should be as many as 120,000 Americans applying to immigrate to the Soviet Union from this "Soviet-American Trading Company" alone a year. If calculated based on the four years from 1929 to 1933, it should be more than half a million.

At this time, Germans only need to spend a little money or ensure food and clothing to attract a large number of talents to work in Germany. Moreover, at that time, war had not yet broken out between Europe and the United States, and the relationship between the two countries was relatively harmonious. The Germans were free to travel to various parts of the United States to search for talents.

It is impossible to estimate how many talents the Germans poached, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.

But this was ten years ago. What is the use of pursuing these now? What is before them is a more urgent question. "That means Goddard's research has been successful." If the thing in space was really put up by the Germans, then it is obvious that Goddard's research is correct. The Germans have made extraordinary achievements in the space field. If they develop some space weapons to attack the United States, can they withstand it?

Obviously, no.

They couldn't even intercept German bombers, how could they block an attack from space? !

"Do we also have to conduct space research?"

Everyone looked depressed. Now that even the earth, sea and air can't stop the German army, they still need to study space?

Not to mention the financial, human and material resources that need to be invested, it is impossible to make it in time just in terms of time.

The Germans had already begun research ten years ago, but they did not have any technical reserves or talent reserves in this area. At this time, even if we mobilize the whole country to pursue it, it will probably take several years. Even if it only takes five years, can they last five years in this war?

"Don't think about space anymore. Let's win the war on Earth first. As long as we win against Germany, then all their advanced technologies will be in our hands, and we will still be a powerful country."

"..." The same question arose in everyone's mind. This is the truth, but can they really defeat Germany?

A celebration banquet is being held at the Algerian Space Launch Base.

"Everyone, we have taken another step forward in conquering space, thanks to the unremitting efforts of you and all the engineers." He was surrounded by a group of top scientists. Hermann Oberth, Werner von Braun, Hubert Stragerhold, Ludwig Prandtl, Sergey Pavlovich Korolev, Theodore Von Kármán, etc., any one of them is a national treasure. And being able to bring so many people together makes Yannick feel full of pride.

"Our next target will be the moon and then Mars."

Speaking of Mars, one has to marvel at Goddard's foresight. As early as the 1920s and 1930s, he envisioned a spacecraft that would fly 1,000 miles above the surface of Mars. This is a strange historical coincidence. The altitude he envisioned happened to be the height of Mariner 9 decades later. The minimum altitude for the SpaceX and Viking spacecraft to orbit Mars.

Goddard once calculated that at any vantage point at this altitude, as long as a moderately sized telescope is used, the topography of the red planet's surface, which is tens of meters across, can be photographed, while the "Viking" orbits Flight photography does just that. He also envisioned a slow interstellar flight with speeds and time scales exactly equivalent to those of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

In addition, he mentioned as early as 1920 that the best place for humans to land on the moon is the south pole or north pole of the moon. Crystallized water can be found in the craters here, and after splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen, it can also be used as fuel. The dreamer's only omission was not foreseeing the dangers of exposure to high-energy particles.

Regrettably, although Goddard made such a great contribution to the field of rocket and space science research, he was not taken seriously by the government and the military during his lifetime, and he was not as lucky as Tsiolkovsky when he was alive. (Be recognized and receive honors). He did not live to see the dawn of rocket astronomy and high-altitude meteorology, let alone feats of flight to the moon or other planets.

In the original time and space, Goddard worked almost alone to develop rockets that fly into space, while Germany on the other side organized a large team of people to intensively develop the "Revenge Messenger"-V-1 and V-2 rockets, which became the most powerful rockets in history. The largest and highest-flying weapon ever launched by man.

After World War II, a large number of German scientists were brought to the United States. When a Luftwaffe general was interrogated by the Americans and asked about rocket technology, he was surprised and asked: "Why don't you ask your own Dr. Goddard?"

"You must pay more attention to your health. A healthy body is the capital of everything. Your health is the most precious wealth of the empire."

In the original time and space of 1945, Goddard was found to have cancer after having a throat tumor removed, and died soon after. Unfortunately, in later generations, the cause of the disease "throat cancer" has not yet been clarified, and there is no definite prevention plan. Naturally, Yannick was helpless. All he could do was ask the medical team to conduct regular health check-ups on these scientists.

Yannick has never been stingy with his enthusiasm and care for the talents who have contributed to the empire, and the effect is also good. After a few words, the people around him were so moved that they almost burst into tears.