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People eagerly anticipated 4718, but no one expected it to be so eventful.

Thankfully, it's over.

The new year has begun.

Naturally, Tang Chao has new... big plans for the new year!

At the end of last year, he took several trips to Canxing and rode the orbital shuttle into space above Canxing. After witnessing the magnificent space scenery, his soul seemed to be baptized and sublimated.

This is actually easy to understand because it's not just his feeling.

For a long time, dreamers have strived to imagine the vast universe above the sky, its incredible scale always captivating.

Later, this imagination was realized.

However, for the first person to enter space, what moved him most seemed not to be the vast starry sky beyond Earth, but the Earth he saw in space.

"When flying around the Earth in a spaceship, I was amazed by the beauty of our planet. People all over the world, please protect and enhance this beauty, and do not destroy it."

After returning to Earth, he said this.

Leaving the familiar Earth and entering space that no one had ever been to, perhaps he only felt at ease when looking at Earth.

In the decades after him, hundreds of astronauts entered space. After returning, whether writing work reports or being interviewed by the media, they would talk about their space journeys.

Gradually, people discovered a pattern.

Compared to watching the vast starry sky, these astronauts seemed to prefer looking back at Earth.

Although their nationality, gender, age, position, profession, and even worldview were different, astronauts generally reflected that when looking back at Earth from space, they could experience profound shocks in consciousness and emotion.

At that moment, it was as if they had become different.

People have studied and called this phenomenon the "overview effect," which is the "cognitive shift" caused by "seeing the Earth with one's own eyes in space."

When in space, the Earth is a whole for everyone, everything on it is interconnected, and astronauts can see and understand what humans have been trying to understand for thousands of years in a personal way. Everything is on that complete planet.

"That beautiful, warm planet is like a living thing, looking so fragile, so delicate, as if it would fall apart with a light touch of a finger."

"Looking through the porthole, the atmosphere is so thin, I can't help but think that we live on such a fragile sphere of life. Before leaving Earth, it is difficult for you to have such a personal experience."

"What is unforgettable to me is a blue I have never seen before,"

"Witnessing the Earth brings a strong emotional experience. Looking back at the planet you live on is not an opportunity that comes often."

Many astronauts who have been to space have said this.

The farther away from Earth, the stronger this feeling, especially when humans stand on the moon and look at Earth.

People often stand on Earth and look at the moon, looking at it for millions of years, but when humans go to the moon and stand on the moon to look back at Earth, that is another feeling.

"When I stood on the moon and looked back at the Earth for the first time, I cried."

One lunar astronaut said this, and their companion said, "At that moment, you changed."

This heartfelt "change" is not just a shift in perspective. More and more thinkers believe that the overview effect heralds the next "giant leap" in human evolution.

As the image of looking at the Earth from space gradually penetrates people's cultural awareness, people gradually understand that the Earth is like a spaceship, its resources are limited, and the crew must navigate responsibly.

As this cosmic consciousness becomes increasingly full, it becomes increasingly clear that human civilization must leave the Earth to survive in the long term.

The Earth is the cradle of mankind, but mankind cannot live in the cradle forever.

Then people began to turn their heads and look at the more distant starry sky.

However, the Earth is always the home of mankind.

As the largest "child" in the cradle of the Earth, and having been to the starry sky of another planet to sublimate himself, Tang Chao is no longer satisfied with the current slow progress.

Although he spent money to turn on the speed multiplier because of his infrastructure madman attribute, he still felt that the company's construction was too slow. He could have tolerated it before, but now it is absolutely impossible.

Even if the first phase of the project is completed with overtime, the manufacturing speed cannot keep up with his needs, not to mention that the launch center he is thinking about has no movement at all.

In his plan, the company in Jiangkou City is the headquarters and R\u0026D center, and the launch center on the island within 10 degrees north latitude at the southernmost point is the transportation hub connecting Earth and space.

Although he wants to build orbital shuttles, and later spaceplanes, with the development of technology, their carrying capacity will definitely be better, but even if he can transport hundreds of tons of materials to space at a time in the cheapest way, the size of the materials is extremely limited.

The cargo hold height of general heavy transport aircraft does not exceed five meters. In order to expand the cargo hold diameter to a greater extent, people have developed the extremely strange-shaped "Beluga transport aircraft", like Big Head Son.

It has expanded the cargo hold diameter to more than seven meters, specializing in transporting parts that are not very heavy, but are oversized, such as unfinished International Space Station modules and wide-body aircraft modules.

It is difficult for this kind of aircraft with cargo hold size to fly in the atmosphere, let alone let it rush out of the atmosphere, unless the spaceplane is built very huge, so that the cabin does not appear so bloated.

But if the size of the spaceplane is large, various data will also increase sharply, and whether it can fly is a question.

In this regard, the rocket is no problem. The current largest fairing diameter can be made to ten meters, which is no longer a problem, and humans have also designed larger rockets. For example, the 12-meter diameter initial draft "Starship", and the legendary 23-meter diameter "Sea Dragon" rocket.

This thing does not need to take off on the runway, nor does it need to use wing lift, purely "brute force."

In the early stage of the space age, it was impossible to build a space station from scratch in Earth orbit. It was only possible to build the modules on the ground and then assemble them in orbit.

Even if it can be built, it is only astronauts fixing existing equipment and parts together. The matter of welding a giant space station out of steel plates will have to be considered for a while.

Therefore, Tang Chao must build a super launch site located at sea. With it, Tang Chao can use super rockets to transport super modules into space, and then assemble various space facilities in orbit.

With these things, it is not too late to consider welding a giant space station out of steel plates.

If one person works slowly, then get a few more people, and there is strength in numbers.

So in the last time of last year, he gathered several domestic aerospace companies together for a meeting, and then announced the establishment of an aerospace alliance.

Although domestic aerospace resources have now been integrated, and cooperation between various companies is more convenient, the current problem is similar to that in Canxing. Whether to cooperate or not, the opposing company has the right to refuse, after all, each company also has its own interests.

Even if they agree to cooperate, there are various wrangling meetings to be held and super long documents to be signed, which can be annoying.

The best way is of course to acquire them, just like in Canxing. When you are the boss of these companies, you can just give an order for them to build anything.

But this is Earth, not Canxing, and it is not so easy to acquire them.

If acquisitions are not possible, then form an alliance to greatly simplify the communication procedures between various aerospace companies and improve work and efficiency.

As long as this alliance is in place, coupled with his technology authorization, he can firmly bind these aerospace companies together.

It is not much different from a company.

If possible, he even wants to unite aerospace companies around the world to develop together.

Unfortunately, this dream is also very distant.

Thanks to Mu Weishengling, Near-Earth Acceleration, SAS Special Forces, Zhanhuju Big Brother, and Xiao Wang is Tianwang for the reward, thank you, the third update is at 11 o'clock~