The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

It's a pity to return. Out of curiosity, Zhang Nan asked again: "There are two Blizzard ships?"

The space shuttle is a very interesting thing. Even if the Americans gave up the space shuttle because of high costs, unpredictable risks, and changing policies in the past life, Zhang Nan still thinks that thing is really interesting.

Simple and complicated, that is what makes the space shuttle interesting in Zhang Nan's eyes.

Hearing the boss’s question here, Andre smiled a little bitterly, “In fact, there are three ships in total. In this workshop are a ground-use simulation spacecraft and a second practical spacecraft that has not been completely completed."

He said and pointed to the distance, "Look, there is a large factory in the distance, where the Energy rocket and the one that has been in space are stored, but it is also closed."

Speaking of this, Andre sighed, everyone knows that the space shuttle Blizzard is no longer possible to go to space.

But for Andre and others, it is enough to sigh a little, life will continue, and people have to look forward.

The Red Devil has been so loyal for the past two years. Zhang Nan suddenly thought of something, and felt that saying it could adjust the mood of the Red Devil, and said: "Actually, I personally feel that the development of the space shuttle is a strategic mistake, especially for the United States... "

The big boss issued a "strategic judgment", which is terrible, and everyone in the vehicle raised their ears-this kind of general judgment and analysis Zhang Nan rarely mentions, but once said it, he did not miss it!

What is the price of the wrong party?

Broken muscles, even broken bones!

"Spaceships and airplanes are originally two things. With the current technology, the two are squeezed together. The two sides are not pleased and cannot reach the extreme.

The original intention of the development of the space shuttle should be to reduce the cost of space exploration, but nowadays it takes at least two or three billion US dollars for a space shuttle launch, and inflation has already exceeded four or five times the expected 10 years ago, and it will take a few years. After that, a single cost of more than 500 million US dollars is no problem.

Looking back, how much is the launch cost of the Soyuz spacecraft plus Proton rocket?

Less than one-tenth of the space shuttle, or even one-twentieth!

The United States does not have a space station. I don’t understand space technology, but I can guess that some experiments done by the space shuttle in the sky can also be completed in the space station. In terms of space time, the space shuttle is absolutely incomparable to the space station.

When the time is short, there will be less things that can be done. Washington and NASA are spending big money on small things, and the way is wrong.

However, it is still a trivial matter that the money is misused. Competition is the best catalyst for technological development. It is best if the bayonet is popular, which will force the development of new technologies.

I guess Washington and NASA will not be able to play new tricks in the next ten or twenty years, apart from uniting Russia and adding some Western countries to create a new space station.

The Mir has long been out of service and cannot be used for another ten years. This earth cannot lack a space station.

More than ten years later, plus the 20 years since the first space shuttle was developed, after stopping the moon landing, NASA will have at least 40 years to make a substantial breakthrough!

Think about it, everyone, since the moon landing program ended, what have we humans done in space?

Originally, it would be good to develop space station and spacecraft technology honestly. The space shuttle is a horse of honor made to adapt to the Star Wars program.

Good-looking is good-looking, too expensive, compared with spacecraft and space stations, it is flashy.

Some people say that it can bring back equipment that needs to be repaired in space. At this point, the current spacecraft does not have that capability, but from my point of view, it is not as good as a new build. "

Speaking of this Nan, he glanced at the clear blue sky outside the window, “This person is always full of desire for exploration, and the technical research that needs to be carried out in the space environment can be done relatively cheaply with a combination of space stations and spacecraft.

Anyway, we have to burn money, stop the space shuttle project, and develop deep space exploration with the money saved.

Exploring space means exploring the unknown. I always use space shuttles to fly around in low-Earth orbit, which burns much more money than deep-space exploration. It’s a waste! "

Zhang Nan is acting from the perspective of God, and he knows that for more than ten years, according to statistics from some US agencies: even if inflation is taken into account, the total amount of funds spent on space shuttle projects in the United States far exceeds that of landing on the moon, manufacturing atomic bombs and digging Panama The sum of the canal projects!

Ten years later, around 2005, the then NASA director simply fired the gun: "The space shuttle and the International Space Station projects, and even all manned space projects in the United States over the past 30 years are strategic mistakes!"

The space shuttle is a flashy gold-swallowing monster, and compared with the Soyuz spacecraft and the Proton Rocket project, it is really cheap and easy to use.

If the United States did not build a space shuttle 20 years ago, and used the money it saved to learn from the Soviet Union to build spacecraft and space stations, it is estimated that there will be a large enough space station. By the way, it will almost be able to go to Mars.

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The Blizzard is a tragedy. According to Zhang Nan's words, the American space shuttle seems to be a tragedy too, or something worse?

Sadly, the sorrow of the Blizzard can be seen by the world. On the US space shuttle project, Washington and NASA do not know it now. In the future, they will all be dumb eating Coptidis chinensis, and there will be hardships to tell!

Detours are terrible, the Soviet Union walked away and lost itself, and the United States, to a certain extent, wasted at least 40 years!

It was already night when I returned to Lenin City, and Zhang Nan and others had to stay here for one night. Tomorrow morning, they would go to the command center here to have a video call with Guan Xingquan.

After returning to the United States, he returned to the United States, and went to China through Moscow. As for Zhang Nan, he will stay in Kazakhstan for a few more days.

But don’t be foolish to wait in Lenin~www.readwn.com~ tomorrow noon, take Nong Bosheng and others to Almaty, and after six days, we will go to the city of Engels on the left bank of the Volga River in southern Russia.

At that time, Guan Xingquan, together with the two astronauts who had been stationed at the Mir space station for a long time, will return to Earth on the Soyuz TM-17 spacecraft. The landing point will be on the large plain more than kilometers southwest of Engels City.

Zhang Nan and Xiang Weirong have to wait for Boss Guan to return safely. As for whether to stay with him in Moscow for a few more days, it depends on the situation.

When Zhang Nan was in the video call the next day, he saw Guan Xingquan almost floating in the air, surrounded by four Russian astronauts with smiling faces.

To cut costs, only two astronauts were on the Mir when the previous Soyuz AT-16 spacecraft was launched, because every drop of water, every liter of oxygen, and every package carried by the Soyuz manned spacecraft and Progress cargo spacecraft Food is sky-high!

At that time, because of Guan Xingquan’s height, he did not take the Soyuz TM-16 spacecraft that was on the Mir before returning, but the original ship returned. Fortunately, this spacecraft will not stay in space for one or two hundred days. Bad.