The rise of nanometers

In the small restaurant, many people were discussing space matters.

Compared with other places in Blue Star, the Greater China area has a completely different atmosphere. In fact, this has a lot to do with the education of the people.

At least in the entire world, China is one of the few places that has popularized political and ideological courses into middle schools.

There are pros and cons to this approach, but overall, the pros outweigh the cons.

In Huang Xiuyuan’s view, the political quality of local people in Greater China is stronger than the average level in other regions.

People who have completed college education can more or less talk on paper and will not be easily fooled. At the same time, they have become the most enthusiastic group in the world today about politics, economy, world structure, geography, etc.

It is really difficult for the people at the bottom of the West to do this.

If this were a restaurant in Paris, perhaps the conversation among the diners would be about art, literature, or family.

In small restaurants in Guiyang, although there are people chatting about family affairs and travel experiences, there are still many people talking about the international situation, space exploration and the like.

Dai Xiaohai and his wife were discussing whether to buy space travel tickets, and suddenly the discussion in the small restaurant became louder.

He turned his head in surprise, only to find that many diners were staring at the big TV in the small restaurant.

Dai Xiaohai soon knew why.

It turned out that the space agency announced the allocation plan and price of 50 tickets.

According to published information, the space agency did not sell all 50 tickets this time, but divided them into two parts.

20 of them are used as prizes for the College Students’ Aerospace Knowledge Contest and the Online Space Thinking Contest, 10 for each of the two competitions.

The remaining 30 tickets are sold commercially to the whole world, with a unit price of 8.88 million yuan per ticket.

However, people in Greater China can enjoy a preferential price, which is 300,000 yuan.

on these three channels.

Needless to say, it goes without saying that you only need to have money for commercial purchases.

The Space Knowledge Competition for College Students. Judging from the name of this competition, we know that it is limited to college students. They must also participate in the Space Knowledge Competition and win the top ten.

As for the Online Space Thinking Contest, this is a competition open to all. You only need to submit an article to the Time Blog's blog and write an article with a word count of 500 to 10,000. The theme of the article is the future, space, and human civilization.

In fact, these two competitions are not held for the first time. The College Student Aerospace Knowledge Competition is currently in its third session, while the Online Aerospace Thinking Competition is in its second session.

Taking out a space travel ticket as a prize in the competition was a bit beyond many people's expectations.

As for Dai Xiaohai, he quickly figured out that there was probably official will behind using space travel tickets as competition prizes.

At this stage, Greater China's aerospace industry has expanded to a very large level, and has even become a pillar industry affecting the national economy and people's livelihood.

But the aerospace industry has a fatal flaw, that is, there is a huge distance from ordinary people's lives.

Although the Tiangong Space Station is only about 450 kilometers away from the ground, it is much more difficult than traveling from Yangcheng to Peiping.

To put it lightly, it is a matter of distance; to put it seriously, it means being separated from the masses.

Although the aerospace industry has more than seven million employees, only a few hundred thousand of them are actually involved in front-line aerospace work.

For an industry to develop, it must be close to people's lives, just like semiconductor and computer technology.

Obviously aerospace technology, nuclear technology, and semiconductor technology all started around the same time in the middle of the last century, but there are obvious differences in the development speeds of the last three.

The key to this is the participation of civil society.

Semiconductors and computers have found their way to the private sector and achieved huge commercial benefits.

However, nuclear technology and aerospace technology are like flowers on a high mountain. They look high-end, but in fact the benefits are not high, and they may even result in losses.

If it were not for the needs of the Cold War in the last century, nuclear technology and aerospace technology would have fallen even further behind. This is the result of being separated from the private sector.

Huang Xiuyuan was also aware of this problem, so he decisively took a series of measures to adjust the aerospace industry and strengthen publicity.

Holding relevant competitions and offering tickets for space tourism are one of the promotional methods.

When it comes to adjusting the aerospace industry, the main thing is to come up with some technologies that can be used by civilians, such as escape capsules, multi-functional clothing, indoor environment adjustment systems, space materials, etc.

There are also a series of results on how the human body adapts to the space environment and how to prevent it.

The aerospace industry must move closer to the people, rather than develop into a fragmented force and eventually become a factor of instability.

Although the current lunar base does not yet have an independent industrial system, and astronauts cannot live in outer space for a long time, it does not mean that they can sit back and relax.

In the Age of Discovery that began in the 16th century, whether it was the Two Teeth, the Netherlands as a sea coachman, or the rising star of the Empire on which the sun never sets, they all faced one problem, and that was the disagreement between the homeland and the colonies.

Although Greater China is developing the moon as a scientific research base in name, it is actually operating it as territory.

Perhaps in the early stages, extraterrestrial territories will not be alienated from the mainland, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be in the future.

Distance produces beauty, and distance also produces separatism.

Fortunately, the moon is right at the doorstep of Blue Star. At the current speed of the launch vehicle, it only takes two or three days to advance at full speed. In an emergency, a round trip can be completed in four days.

But the pace of Greater China's cosmic expansion will not stop. At least Mars, the asteroid belt, Jupiter and Saturn, as well as Venus, Mercury and the Sun, are too far away from the Blue Star.

Once time passes, it's hard to guarantee whether these extraterrestrial leaders will have other thoughts. Human hearts are the most difficult thing to predict.

Therefore, only by strengthening the control of the aerospace industry and integrating the aerospace industry with the private sector can we avoid the emergence of mountains.

Ordinary people like Dai Xiaohai don't know the thinking of the upper class, but they are very enthusiastic about the Internet Space Thinking Competition.

"With your writing skills, forget it!" His wife Chen Yun said with an unceremonious smile.

Dai Xiaohai didn't give up yet: "This is not about writing an essay. The competition does not require style. I think I can give it a try."

Picking up a piece of green pepper, Chen Yun reminded: "It's up to you. Don't even think about buying a ticket anyway."

"I know." Although Dai Xiaohai was unwilling to give in, he had no desperate thoughts. If the price could be reduced to about 200,000, he might consider it.

In fact, for a ticket of 300,000 Chinese yuan, the space agency can still make money. The cost of launching into low-Earth orbit is very low, only about 80 to 120 Chinese yuan per kilogram of materials.

A person plus a spacesuit weighs about 90 to 100 kilograms, plus the money for food, drinks, and related training costs, the comprehensive cost of a trip to the Tiangong Space Station is about 80,000 Chinese yuan per person.

If it were to go to the moon, the cost would not be higher than 1 million per person.

Obviously, with technological innovation, Greater China's aerospace technology has become more and more perfect, and operating costs have become lower and lower.

Domestic fares for space tourism seem to be a tear-jerking sale. Many people think they have made a profit, but the space agency will never lose money.

This time, the space tourism tickets announced by the China Space Administration also quickly aroused huge repercussions on the Internet at home and abroad.

There are people in Greater China who can afford 300,000 Chinese yuan.

Although the selling price abroad is as high as 8.88 million yuan, in the eyes of many wealthy people, this price is just a drop in the bucket.

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