Super technology leader

"Did you see the news? Adventure Star's second launch was a success, and it even carried two astronauts. Those Merican's technology is pretty good."

"Yeah, I saw it. If I hadn't seen the news, I would have forgotten that Adventure Star's second launch was today."

"Their technology is indeed good. Although they've been surpassed by Pathfinder in some areas, their foundation is still there. Their overall technical level is quite high, and they won't lose their title as the world's leading space power just because of one company's emergence."

"Of course, how can a company compare to a country? The real world isn't a cyberpunk literary work."

Merica's space strength is still impressive, and its status is high. Even if there's other explosive information, it still has a certain reserved space in international news, enough to attract attention. But then the topic quickly returned to the 'right path'.

"Indeed, they're impressive, but I still feel that Pathfinder is more awesome in terms of manned spaceflight. After all, they've already started commercializing space tourism projects."

"Hey, did you guys see the list? One of the people who bought a ticket is from the Todria Republic, a very small African country with a small population. That person is a famous local fruit king, who has been trading fruit since his grandfather's generation. I didn't expect that he could go to space as an astronaut in his generation!"

"That country sounds familiar. Isn't it the famous tropical fruit and copper-producing country that contracted all of its national infrastructure projects to our Tianxia?"

"Wow, not bad. The fruit king is indeed the fruit king. He can take out a million dollars without hesitation. And a person who has been selling fruit for generations actually has the courage to spend a million dollars to take a trip to space. That's... quite a dreamer."

"Hey, detailed information is here. He's not just an ordinary fruit seller. He actually studied at Caltech before. He was originally going to join the Merican Space Agency after graduation, but his father suddenly became seriously ill, and no one was managing the family business. This only son had no choice but to go back."

"That makes sense. But this is probably fate. If he had joined the space agency, he would probably only be watching astronauts ride the spacecraft he helped build into space, and he wouldn't have had the chance to go to space himself today."

"Maybe, who knows? Perhaps he wouldn't have been so lucky in another timeline. I saw the data released by Pathfinder. More than 200 million people were vying for tickets at the same time. Are there so many people on our planet who can easily take out a million dollars???"

"Haha, there are a lot of people joining in the fun. But their luck probably isn't very good. If anyone had won, they would definitely be spreading screenshots of 'insufficient balance' all over the world..."

"There's so much variety among the passengers this time. There's even a member of the royal family from a small country in Europa, a princess..."

The internet is filled with information about Pathfinder's commercial space travel ticket sales. Even if there's information about Adventure Star's second launch, it will soon be diverted to the ticket rush.

There's no way around it. The influence of commercial space travel is too great, especially for ordinary people.

This is like comparing the public acceptance of niche art films and commercial popcorn movies.

Professional film critics, professional judges, professional industry insiders, and artists, they watch niche art films and applaud and rave about them, and then turn around and scold commercial popcorn movies, saying that commercial popcorn movies are not worthy of being called movies at all and are an insult to the film industry.

And billions of ordinary viewers, their professional skills are not so high, they just want to have fun, or be moved to tears by the plot, or enjoy a visual feast, and get their money's worth.

As long as the plot is passable, and there is no forced feeding of shit by the screenwriter, director, and actors, and the picture is good-looking, they will be very satisfied, which will make the movie box office pile up to a very high level.

For them, art films are okay, they can appreciate them, as for niche art films...

"I'm not paying to be abused, nor am I here to look at a face full of question marks. The chairs in the movie theater are not as comfortable as the bed, why go to the movie theater to watch that stuff."

Of course, this is just a metaphor, after all, aerospace technology is not about watching art, but about hardcore strength.

As long as the strength is hardcore enough, then it's basically a complete harvest.

Now, although only 16 passengers are going into space, their every move is attracting the attention of the whole world. This time it's really the whole world. Neither the test flight nor the European Emperor's trip to space can compare to this level of prestige.

Before, it was basically Tianxia people, and the biggest impact was on Tianxia and Merica. Other countries were just watching the excitement, not even participating in it.

And this time, 16 people are distributed in 12 countries. Except for Antarctica, each continent has a few people.

Now, there's no need to watch the excitement. 12 countries have 12 hot spots, and the ticket quota is not arranged according to national strength. It has a bit of a random flavor. Among these 12 countries, only Tianxia has manned spaceflight capabilities, and the remaining countries do not have the strength to send people into space.

Yes, Merica, the Russian, and the newly promoted Peacock Country didn't get a single ticket.

Nearly 40 countries in the world have had astronauts enter space, but the vast majority of them did not send their own astronauts into space, but rather rode on the Russian or Merican spacecraft.

Among the 11 places, there are 3 places where the country has had astronauts enter space, and the remaining 8 countries can really take this opportunity to achieve zero breakthroughs for astronauts.

Such a thing is not only exciting for those passengers who have tickets, but the whole country is also excited.

This is something they never dared to think about before, but now it's going to be realized. How can they not be excited?

They are excited, and their neighboring countries are even more excited!

Damn, they were all lying on the ground, and the matter of astronauts entering space had nothing to do with their country. The International Space Station doesn't look for cooperation with them either. Now, someone from your country is suddenly going to enter space?!

We agreed to be backward together, but you secretly took extra lessons!

Damn it!

Is love going to disappear after all?

Who can stand this!

So, after such a stimulation, those countries that didn't get tickets, and even those that didn't pay attention to this matter before, couldn't sit still.

Especially those countries that are usually ranked at the bottom in international rankings, and can only compare with their neighbors, and then have a little sense of superiority, they found that their neighbors, who are ranked behind them, are actually going to have astronauts, then they will definitely run ahead of them when the new rankings come out!

So they made up their minds that they must send their own people into space!

Regardless of whether there are any rich people in their country who are interested in space and want to spend money to take a trip to space, the government must be interested. They must get a place to enter space as soon as possible.

Those news reports are right, now is the new space age, if you haven't been to space yet, you will definitely not keep up with this era!

Even if you don't care about the aerospace technology development of those powerful countries and big countries, you have to care about the "aerospace" changes of your neighbors!

It's like a person can not care about what car a super-rich person drives, what mobile phone they use, what they eat, anyway, it's better than their own car, mobile phone, and food, but they can't not care about what car their neighbor drives, what mobile phone their colleague buys, and what their tablemate eats!

This is face!

Although it is not recommended to compare, you have to admit that when the things you use are better than those around you, your mood will be more comfortable.

Personal matters only concern individuals, but a country's affairs are related to national recognition.

If the people feel that the current government agencies are not as good as their neighbors, then... it's especially dangerous.

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