Chapter 457 They Are All Here to Ask for Funds!

The manned space flight and lunar exploration project exchange meeting held in Beijing, along with news reports, quickly spread throughout the entire network.

Unexpectedly but also reasonable, most of the news reported by the media are related to Xu Chuan.

"Warmly celebrate the convening of the manned space flight and lunar exploration project exchange meeting, well-known scholar Academician Xu Chuan will serve as the chief technical consultant! 》

"The first manned space flight and lunar exploration project exchange meeting was held in Beijing, led by science and technology, and hundreds of companies and leaders participated. 》

The titles and content of the institutional media are still serious.

And those forwarded self-media or marketing accounts, the titles are as eye-catching as they can be.

"Shock! The chief technical consultant of the moon landing project is actually him! 》

"Nantianmen Project! Aerospace mothership! Interstellar mining! Our mission is the sea of ​​stars! 》

"The father of controlled nuclear fusion has set foot in the field of aerospace, and a new era of aerospace is coming! 》

"Shock! The father of controlled nuclear fusion is going to transcend the catastrophe and ascend to the moon palace! 》

It has to be said that in China, and even in the world, any news related to Xu Chuan or his name is undoubtedly the most popular in the scientific research community.

In the past, such similar conferences generally did not make much noise on the Internet. Except for netizens in specific fields who would take the initiative to pay attention to it, other people could be said to have no attention at all.

And this time, surprisingly, this conference actually rushed into the top three hot searches, attracting many netizens to discuss.

[Moon landing project! Awesome, my country! ]

[Excited! Go up and see if there are any footprints, the Stars and Stripes, and other things! ]

[Is it possible that this is the first moon landing in human history? (Dog head!)]

[Compared to the moon landing, I think the more awesome thing is the mass catapult and the Nantianmen Project! If it really works, wow, I will fly over the head of the United States and drop a meteorite in the future, so cool! ]

[Let's go to the small island country! ]

[The Nantianmen Project actually came true. I didn't expect to see this in my lifetime. ]

[I'm more curious why the chief designer is not Chuan Shen? 】

【Kawashin is not in the aerospace field, but he is the chief consultant, which is also awesome, as he has the final say on technology! 】

There is a lot of discussion on the Internet, and in reality, governments of various countries are also overwhelmed by this sudden news.

With China restarting manned space flight and lunar exploration projects, related information has attracted considerable attention worldwide.

On the Atlantic coast, in the White House.

The elderly president is holding a newspaper in his hand.

The title above is famous "China restarts manned space flight, will the new era of the Cold War start again?"

It must be said that this title is indeed very lethal to the United States.

After all, the Cold War of the last century is one of the most glorious histories they have created.

That time, they successfully disintegrated a red behemoth into dozens of countries today, and there is no longer any threat to them.

And now, the transformation of the new era has begun again. This time, can they still win?

While thinking, William Joseph Burns, director of the CIA, Bill Nelson, director of NASA, and Halifax Bruce, director of the Princeton Plasma Laboratory, came to the office together.

"What do you think of the news released by China?" The old president asked, putting down the newspaper in his hand.

Bill Nelson, director of NASA, spoke first: "This is not good news. They have restarted manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects and announced plans to build large-mass projectors and aerospace carriers. The target is most likely the rich helium-3 resources on the moon."

"And according to our investigation, under the leadership of Professor Xu, China's newly established Xinghai Research Institute is conducting research on the second-generation controlled nuclear fusion. We must keep up and increase investment in the aerospace field."

For NASA, whether the news is true or false, they will make it true.

After all, this is a great opportunity to increase the funding of congressional grandfathers in the aerospace field.

"Second-generation controlled fusion is not that easy to research, you don't have to worry about it at all." Halifax Bruce, director of the Princeton Plasma Laboratory, said quickly.

Although China unexpectedly announced the restart of manned space flight and lunar exploration projects this time, it is completely different from the previous low-key approach, and even announced science fiction things such as large-mass catapults and the Nantianmen Project.

But in the eyes of insiders, these are almost impossible to do.

And NASA said that the other party's target is the rich helium-3 resources on the moon, which is even more nonsense.

Although the first-generation deuterium-tritium controlled nuclear fusion technology has been solved, the problem of second-generation controlled nuclear fusion is much greater than that of the first generation.

Bill Nelson said all this just to ask NASA for more scientific research funds.

But for a country, the total amount of scientific research funds is capped.

NASA took away more funds, and Princeton PPPL Plasma Physics Laboratory would naturally get much less.

You should know that two months ago, when China completed the ignition of the Qixia controlled nuclear fusion demonstration reactor project, the United States quickly followed suit and launched its own controlled nuclear fusion demonstration reactor project.

The spherical NSTX device in the PPPL laboratory is the fusion device that is closest to the Dawn Fusion Device modified by Professor Xu in China.

Coupled with the powerful mathematical ability of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Professor Fefferman's research on the NS equation, the US Energy Department has invested a large amount of scientific research funds, more than 1 billion US dollars, in the PPPL plasma laboratory.

Including the subsequent super demonstration reactor project built in Washington State, the PPPL laboratory can also get a large share of this super project with an investment of more than 10 billion US dollars through its original technical accumulation.

But if the United States is pulled into the space race of manned space flight and lunar exploration projects, the grandfathers in Congress will definitely reallocate the budget and funds for the existing scientific research projects.

And in the case that the basic plate of controlled nuclear fusion has been lost, if the aerospace field fails again, the voices of the outside world may be even more unpleasant.

So even if the controlled nuclear fusion project is urgently needed by the United States, as the world's first aerospace power, they may not be able to tolerate being caught up or even surpassed by the Chinese in this field.

So it is estimated that the allocation of funds to NASA is a foregone conclusion.

However, Halifax Bruce did not want the amount of funding to be too large.

After all, too much funding was allocated to the aerospace field, so the amount that could be obtained from controlled nuclear fusion would naturally be less.

Hearing Halifax Bruce say this, NASA's Bilson immediately looked over and stared at him and asked, "But the one leading the lunar exploration project is Professor Xu. Can you guarantee that he can't do it?"

"Don't forget the controlled nuclear fusion thing. If it happens again in the aerospace field, who will be responsible then?"

Hearing that headache-inducing name, everyone in the office frowned involuntarily.

Halifax Bruce coughed lightly and said, "My friend, you don't have to be so excited."

After a slight pause, he continued, "As far as I know, Professor Xu is only a technical consultant, not the general manager like controlled nuclear fusion."

"If the news I received is correct, China will build a large particle collider. This was proposed by Professor Xu. I believe his attention should be focused on this."

"Am I right? Director William."

As he said, he looked at William Joseph Burns, the director of the CIA.

Across the desk, the elderly president also looked over.

William Joseph Burns nodded and said, "According to the intelligence we have collected, China is indeed determined to build a large particle collider, and they are currently communicating with CERN."

"However, manned space flight and lunar exploration projects are also in their arrangement plan. And according to the intelligence, Professor Xu is responsible for more than just the nominal position of chief consultant."

"China's newly established Xinghai Research Institute is led by Professor Xu. According to the intelligence we have obtained, their manned space flight and lunar exploration projects are very likely to be placed in Xinghai Research Institute, or cooperate with it."

Hearing this, the old president thought for a while and asked, "What do you think we should do?"

Director William shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, and it's not my responsibility. I have no opinion on any field of investment."

"But I suggest increasing investment in the CIA."

"After all, no matter what, we have to know what our opponents are doing. This is the basis, and we can also formulate a counter-plan."

Hearing this, the old president couldn't help rubbing his temples.

There is no meaningful opinion at all, they are all here to ask for funds!

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