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The more frequent space activities are, the more frequent space conferences become.

The early victories on the American side pleased the President, who decided to invest a wave of money because he realized that so far, his side only had exquisite CG, and the hardcore stuff was not dominant.

Because this victory is ultimately superficial, and ultimately depends on hard power.

Before he became president, he was a businessman, and he remains a businessman as president, so the most frequently mentioned thing after he took office is "money, money, money."

"You must give me money, or I will sanction you!"

"You must pay part of my military expenses, or I will withdraw my troops and not protect you!"

"I give you so much money every year, why do you speak for Tianxia! I want to withdraw!"

"I don't want to mess with you, I just want to make money!"

"Give me money! I want money!"

"No one knows more about money than me!"

Because of this, he has once again allocated funds to NASA, so as to speed up the research and development progress of various projects.

Today's meeting is to discuss the use and allocation of this fund.

Jim, the director of NASA, said: "The President requires us to speed up the first launch mission of the SLS rocket in order to respond to Tianxia's Long March 9 progress."

"Judging from the current situation, the other party's super-heavy rocket launch pad and super-heavy mobile platform have been completed and are being inspected. Moreover, the first Long March 9 rocket has also been built and is also undergoing various ground tests. According to their original plan to launch in May, there seems to be no problem now."

"If this is the case, we must advance the launch time of the SLS rocket, at least to May. We must defend our current victory."

After speaking, he looked at the representative of Boeing and asked, "How is it? Can it be completed?"

The Boeing representative flipped through the documents in front of him, and then said seriously: "Yes, as long as we get 200 million US dollars in funding, we are confident that we can advance the first launch of the SLS rocket to May 10."

As soon as the Boeing representative said this, there was a buzzing discussion in the venue.

"What are you kidding me? The total allocation this time is only 200 million US dollars. If you take it all, what meeting are we going to have?" Someone said directly with dissatisfaction.

Someone took the lead, and others began to express their opinions loudly, and some even cursed directly if they had a bad temper, and the curses were quite harsh.

The venue was chaotic and did not look like a space conference at all. Director Jim picked up the small wooden hammer and banged on the table.

"Quiet! Quiet! We are in a meeting!"

When the meeting room was quiet again, he said to the Boeing representative: "That's right, don't even think about 200 million US dollars. That's for everyone. You can get up to 50 million US dollars."

"You have already overspent the previous special allocation, and you have received two separate allocations after the extension. The President is very dissatisfied with you after knowing this. This time, you must achieve the first flight in May, otherwise the President will sign an executive order to investigate you!"

"50 million US dollars?"

The Boeing representative was a little dissatisfied, but after hearing the following words, he restrained his emotions and said: "If it is 50 million US dollars, it may be a little difficult, but I need to call back and discuss it with the scientific research and manufacturing team. It may be possible to conduct the first flight before May 31."

Jim nodded when he heard the words, "Go ahead, you have half an hour."

The Boeing representative got up and gestured and walked out of the office to make a phone call. Everyone present whispered, the giant is a giant, and its strength is deeply rooted in the country. It can still get 50 million US dollars.

Awesome.

But it also made other people's faces look ugly. The total allocation was only 200 million US dollars, and the other party took away 50 million, so the funds allocated to them would be less.

Many people present couldn't stand Boeing's style. It obviously has super strong research and development and manufacturing capabilities, but the SLS rocket project has been delayed again and again. The entire project is about to spend NASA's one-year funding, and it can still get money.

If they had this money, the United States would have built a colony on the moon long ago!

They definitely don't believe that there is no inside story here.

It can only be said that when industry giants reach a certain level, their influence is really huge.

But they can't help it. Boeing is a giant, but they are not.

That's why they want to become giants, and that's why...

Ahem.

While others were talking about Boeing, Jim was also calculating his own accounts. If the SLS rocket can really be launched on May 31, it is actually okay.

Even if the Long March 9 is launched a few days earlier than it, it doesn't matter, after all, the SLS's payload and flight distance completely beat the Long March 9.

According to the plan previously revealed by Tianxia Aerospace Administration, the first flight of the Long March 9 is just to test the orbital flight capability, and it only carries a satellite test platform, which is not comparable to the first flight test of the SLS.

The first flight test of the SLS is carrying the "Orion" manned spacecraft to the moon for an unmanned lunar orbit test mission.

The difficulty level of these two tasks is simply the distance from the top of Mount Everest to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

As soon as he thought of this metaphor, he wanted to slap himself in the face. There is a ready-made Earth-Moon distance for comparison, why did he use a metaphor?

The distance of the metaphor is far from the distance of the Earth-Moon.

But none of this matters, anyway, as long as you know that this can maintain the advantage of the United States.

As the director of NASA, he will definitely be praised by the President at that time, which is a very high honor for a lackey.

Thinking of this, he knocked on the table, "Okay, quiet, what I said before was the official progress, now let's talk about the progress of private companies."

"SpaceX and Blue Origin, your super rockets also need to speed up research and development and manufacturing speed. According to intelligence, the Voyager's Starship rocket is also manufacturing very fast, only a little later than the Long March 9's progress, and it is likely to have its first flight within the year..."

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He was talking when suddenly a deputy director pushed the door in and said anxiously: "Director, gentlemen, I think the conference room can turn off the shielding device first, you need to watch an important news."

If it were an ordinary employee, Jim would definitely scold him, but the deputy director could be so anxious, then there must be some bad... important news.

Especially for them.

Turning off the shield, the deputy director skillfully operated a few times on the computer connected to the big screen, found a latest video released by Tianxia Aerospace Administration, and clicked play.

The video content is a CG video of the Long March 9, which is also quite exquisite, with the same excellent quality as the one they bombed for a while ago.

According to the introduction, this is a simulated picture of the first flight mission of the Long March 9, with the first flight time marked on it, which is May 3, very early.

Even if Boeing gets all the funding, it won't catch up.

Seeing this, he almost had a myocardial infarction.

"Fortunately, there is a difference in payload and distance, we still have a chance to win."

He thought.

Looking further, the latest payload of the Long March 9 is introduced, the near-Earth orbit carrying capacity has increased to 190 tons, and the lunar orbit carrying capacity has increased to 60 tons.

His heart stagnated again.

Showing data is also a kind of comparison.

The carrying capacity of the Long March 9 was already stronger than the SLS rocket, and now it is even stronger.

"Fortunately, there is a difference in payload and distance, we still have... a chance to win."

After that, there is the modification of the Long March 9, the carrying capacity can soar to more than 200 tons, and there is also a recovery model, the carrying capacity is not worse than the first flight.

Simply enchanting.

The SLS rocket has never thought about recovering it.

Fortunately, it is not about this first flight, but a future plan.

"We have the advantages of payload and distance, we will definitely win, we will definitely win."

Every time a new thing came out later, he would think about this sentence, until he saw the payload of the Long March 9's first flight.

"It's not the satellite test platform planned before, but a lunar habitat! WTF??!"

Correspondingly, the first flight plan has also been changed to fly to the moon.

"Payload..."

"Distance..."

"Fuck..."

"..."