Chapter 591: Prologue of the space race

At a restaurant near the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, sitting at the table and waiting for dishes, looking at the words on the screen of the mobile phone, Lu Zhou's expression was a bit unnatural.
【Shock! Lu, the chief designer of controlled fusion engineering, is in charge of manned landing on the moon? !! 】
[Lu Zhou: Our journey is the sea of ​​stars! 】
[His three words accidentally leaked shocking secrets! 】
[Designer Lu said that the ultimate goal of the moon landing plan was for it? !! 】
Lu Zhou: "?????"
Did n’t you say it ’s not the chief designer?
Do n’t these reporters listen?
Noting the rigid expression on Lu Zhou's face, Xu Yuanming chuckled in his heart, and coughed out, "Our journalists are more optimistic and optimistic."
Can a positive energy rumor be a rumor?
Putting down the phone, looking at the soy beans on the table, Lu Zhou sighed: "You really have caused me a lot of trouble."
"Let's stop talking, eat fast. This elbow is cold and it won't taste good." Pretending not to hear, Xu Yuanming opened his chopsticks and said with a smile, "This restaurant makes this dish." Yes, I used to eat here when I was in school. I didn't expect that after so many years, the taste has not changed. "
Lu Zhou: "..."
This topic shifted too rigidly.
But for the meal he asked for, he decided not to care about the details ...
After dinner, Lu Zhou and Xu Yuanming went to a separate place, and then got into the car waiting at the door.
"Send me to the station."
While driving the car on the road, Wang Peng asked: "Let's go back to Jinling?"
Lu Zhou: "Well, I've been away from the laboratory for too long, and I'm not so relieved."
Wang Peng said with a smile, "Aren't you on vacation? Why are you so busy?"
Lu Zhou smiled and didn't speak.
Of course, he wouldn't say that he wasn't assured that it wasn't an unfinished experiment, but that an artificially retarded man was playing with his new toy in his laboratory.
Of course, even without Xiao Ai's instability, he should almost go back.
There are still a lot of secrets on Wreck III waiting for him to discover.
Sorry, that could be the key to solving the moon landing problem ...
At the station, I boarded the nearest high-speed train from Shangjing to Jinling directly. After several hours of driving, Lu Zhou finally got off at Jinling South Station.
After transferring to the black red flag, Lu Zhou did not let Wang Peng send himself home, but sent himself to Jinling Advanced Institute.
Because many experiments need to be kept, the institute is not closed at night.
After letting Wang Peng go back first, Lu Zhou walked into the main building of the academy alone, passed the alloy door at the end of the corridor of the second-floor sample library, and came to the laboratory on the third-floor underground.
However, when he walked into the laboratory and looked at the conditions inside, the whole man was stunned.
Hold the grass?
Bumblebee?
...
With the resumption of the Chinese manned moon landing plan, the landing of the three policies has not only caused a stir in domestic media, but has also attracted a lot of attention worldwide.
In particular, the Daily Mail, one of the headline ancestors of the headline party and the most intriguing, reported the news with a fairly inductive headline.
"Hua Guo moon landing plan! The prelude to the new space race? 》
At the same time, three Alpha companies.
At the highest-level president's office, Benderbauer, sitting on an office chair, looked at the newspaper in his hand and frowned slightly.
After a while, he spoke.
"This is not good news."
"They are far from the second-generation controlled fusion, and you have no need to worry about it."
Speaking is Professor Burton Richter, an expert in particle physics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. In addition to his professorship, he is also a member of the advisory board of the three Alpha Energy Corporation and the 76th Nobel Prize in Physics. .
Although he did not learn from the Daily Mail, he knew something about it.
Just a few hours ago, China announced specific measures to implement the manned moon landing program, and it was rare to announce high-profile plans to establish a permanent scientific research station on the surface of the moon to explore three helium reserves in the lunar soil.
It is generally speculated that this is paving the way for second-generation controllable fusion, but Professor Rickett, who really understands how difficult helium trifusion is, is very clear. These speculations are just nonsense.
"No, it's not the second-generation controllable fusion that worries me," dropping the newspaper in his hand, Bendbauer leaned on the office chair, his index finger pressed to the eyebrow, "but the Congress's budget committee ..."
After the Huaguo STAR-2 demonstration reactor announced the successful ignition at the beginning of the year, the United States also quickly launched its own national controllable fusion project, selecting a site between Los Angeles and San Francisco to build a giant demonstration reactor device. Appropriations have reached tens of billions of dollars.
In this demonstration reactor project, relying on the excellent heating performance of the FRC field reverse configuration, San Alpha successfully defeated its rival General Atomic Energy and obtained orders for heating components.
If nothing else, this order will bring hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to his company, as well as a price increase of more than hundreds of millions of dollars on the Nasdaq.
However, at this time, Hua Guo suddenly announced a high-profile launch of the moon landing plan, and even announced the strategic layout of helium three resources to be explored on the moon, which will undoubtedly have an impact on the demonstration reactor project in California.
After all, research funding is not unlimited, and no country can launch two super projects at the same time while maintaining a stable financial operation.
However, whether it is controlled fusion or the moon, the United States is unwilling to give up.
It is foreseeable that once the United States is drawn into this space race, Congress will almost certainly review existing research projects and budgets, and cut off some less urgent projects to ensure NASA's appetite Can also be satisfied.
For example, relatively less important plasma heating components ...
Maybe it will be postponed until the main body of the demonstration reactor is completed.
This is obviously not a pleasant thing for Bendbauer, and it is almost certain to happen.
He can even imagine that picture, how people at NASA cheered when they saw this news.
These people are worried that they have no excuse to ask Congress for money. This is comfortable now. The country across the Pacific has already helped them pass the excuse to their lips.
Just as Benderbauer flipped through the newspaper in a heavy mood, the hand turning the newspaper suddenly stopped.
I saw his gaze and locked him in a certain line in the newspaper's interview with Lu Zhou.
"Plasma engine ..."
There was a word in his mouth, and what he thought, his voice was gradually excited.
"Plasma engine! That's it!"
Throwing away the newspaper in my hand ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Bendbauer got up suddenly from the office chair, walked around the office with his hands behind his back, and said excitedly.
"Electric propulsion, controlled fusion, and it all work! We can combine these two concepts!"
At least on the PPT, it will not be difficult.
"Sir, I'm not pouring cold water on you ..." Looking at him with a strange look, Burton Richter reminded, "We haven't solved the most critical issue of controllable fusion. You plan to miniaturize something Go to the plasma engine. "
Stopping, Bendbauer looked at Professor Richter with a smile.
"My dear Professor Richter, of course, I know that bread must be made before it is toasted."
"However, it is not past now. Before we can put bread on the table, we must first convince those who support us that we can do it!"
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