Big Shot recorded it on paper, roughly confirming all of it was basically feasible.

First, there was no problem with the space agency facilitating the construction of the launch site, and the leaders of Qiongzhou were likely to welcome them with open arms and fanfare.

Second, astronaut training was a minor matter; they trained big and small cats alike, so three or four more wouldn’t make a difference.

Third, international construction surely required the assistance of China’s official power; without it, progress would be impossible. This was also a way for the country to export capital, and the government would provide support.

Fourth and fifth, participating in China’s space program only had a certain possibility, and the opening of the space market also included national projects. It just needed more specific discussion; there was no issue with the ground-based telemetry and command system, as it was available for use upon payment.

Big Shot felt that after this plan, extracting ten billion from New Yuan’s hands wouldn’t be a problem. He suddenly felt much more balanced, and turned to praise Lin Ju:

"Although Comrade Lin Ju is a bit impetuous, his considerations are quite comprehensive, especially with the sale of the space shuttle. In reality, Abe only has the right to use it, which is a very proper arrangement."

Listening to this lukewarm praise, Tang Weitian secretly curled his lips. Big Shot’s attitude changed as quickly as the face of a dog; just drawing a line to the benefits for the space agency had changed his tune.

"Little Tang, you have him wait a bit. We’ll have a meeting tonight and tomorrow. This involves large-scale cooperation in a sensitive region, and we cannot afford any mistakes; but we must also make it clear that, overall, our nation supports it!"

...

"Recently, Abe’s space agency has reached a tripartite cooperation intent with China Aerospace Technology Group and New Yuan Aerospace Power Company, to engage in in-depth manned space cooperation and the construction of new spacecraft and space habitats, with a projected total investment of 10 billion US dollars.

A reporter brings the coverage..."

News on November 8, New Yuan Aerospace once again made the headlines, and this time the report lasted three minutes, with even more explosive content.

They specifically flew to Ulanha Mountain and shot a long segment of Drawing 154 carrying the H1 in flight, including the streamlined test footage of the H1, wrapped in a fairing, separating from Drawing 154 and autonomously flying, and also inserted a video of Deng Lei, clad in a spacesuit, training in the simulation cabin.

This easily led people to believe at first glance that the H1 had already entered the manned driving stage, and it was not clear whether this was intentional.

Zhou Rui and Zhao Xiaowen both accepted an interview for about ten seconds with righteous expressions, stating they were dedicating themselves to the scientific cause and would carry out cutting-edge scientific research in space.

In the end, there was also an animated simulation where the H1 was mounted on top of the New Yuan-2, launched into orbit by a one-and-a-half stage rocket, remained there for 12 hours, and then re-entered the atmosphere to land and return.

Yes, that’s a space shuttle!

No matter how theoretically past space shuttle technology has been proven to be flashy but impractical, expensive, and unsafe—still, it’s a space shuttle!

Just visually, the image of astronauts sitting in a metal canister landing and an astronaut buzzing down the runway in a little plane is inherently two different realms.

The big news about New Yuan wrapped up, but it seemed like today’s news had special attention for space affairs; it immediately followed up with news from several institutions under the space agency, stating that they were conducting research on reusable rockets.

Even the Cloud Ascend Project, which wasn’t supposed to be public until 2016, surprisingly had news two years earlier, possibly also feeling the stimulus.

In the end was the rare summary from the big shot of the space agency: "Our country’s space industry has entered a new era and a new track. The space agency will adhere to the principle of steady progress, promote a spirit of open cooperation, and strive to bring our country’s space industry to the forefront among the world’s leading space powers..."

Yes, at this time, China’s space industry really lagged significantly behind the advanced level.

The active Long March 2, 3, and 4 rocket families were still using "toxic" hydrazine fuel, technologically behind, and the payload capacity could only be considered moderate.

Three years ago, "Tiangong No.1", an experimental space station was launched, and "Tiangong No.2" would not be launched until two years later.

The original plan of the space agency was to do their own thing without competing with other countries; the idea was simply to save some money and spend more time.

However, Lin Ju’s sudden appearance stirred the space agency, making them restless. Falling behind America was acceptable to everyone, but it would be an embarrassment to be outperformed by a rising private space company.

As the news concluded, heated discussions were only beginning to erupt on the internet which had not yet reached its full potential due to mobile connectivity.

In the "10s" decade, all aspects of China were on the rise. In 2011, the fourth-generation stealth fighter jet, codenamed "Flame Lynx" by NATO, made its maiden flight; in 2012, a sixty-thousand-ton aircraft carrier was commissioned. Although there was progress in space exploration, it failed to deliver a refreshing shock to the public.

The fault lies with the superpower camps during the Cold War, which went all out. Decades of industrial foundation combined with a relentless race allowed for the launch of the first artificial satellite in 1957 and only four years later, Yuri Gagarin was sent into space. Then, in the eight years from 1961 to 1969, they managed to send humans to the Moon.

It is worth noting that the "Vostok" spacecraft which carried Gagarin had no electronic computer, only primitive relays; when re-entering the atmosphere, the capsule did not have the capability to land safely with a human, instead, Gagarin was ejected at a certain altitude and parachuted down.

In the end, Yuri Gagarin, controlling his parachute, landed in a field. Dressed in his yellow spacesuit, he walked up to a woman with her daughter and a cow, asking to use their phone to call for someone to pick him up.

The first American in space, Alan Shepard, sat atop a mid-range ballistic missile modified by the Army to fly into space. His spacecraft was even more rudimentary than Gagarin’s "Vostok", weighing only 1 ton and unable to reach orbit; it could only stay in space for 15 minutes before returning.

When Shepard was asked by reporters about his feelings while sitting on top of the Redstone rocket awaiting launch, he replied, "Every part of this spacecraft was produced by the contractor who bid the lowest."

It’s worth mentioning that Shepard could not hold his urine before launch, and his spacesuit did not have an excretion system; the murky liquid leaked into his breathing apparatus, so Mr. Alan Shepard’s journey to space might not have been very pleasant and certainly made for a unique record.

Unlike Gagarin, who was a strict military man with no vices, Shepard smoked, drank, got his hair permed; no, he chased women, and even visited bars two weeks before the launch.

However, unlike the unfortunate Gagarin, Shepard later took part in the Apollo 14 mission, where he hit three golf balls on the lunar surface during the first color TV broadcast from the Moon, with the furthest reaching over 500 meters.

The computer memory inside the Apollo spacecraft he rode was only 16K; an iPhone 4 had 512MB of memory, which is thirty-two thousand times that of the Apollo spacecraft computer.

A joke from later generations said that the Apollo astronauts were like floating to the Moon in a tumble dryer, but this comparison is flawed, as the chips in a tumble dryer are not that bad. Moreover, tumble dryers can be used with the push of a button, while the Apollo spacecraft, under extreme circumstances, allowed the astronauts to manually operate the spacecraft and compute the trajectory to travel the 380,000 kilometers back home.

Just to add: in the Union’s failed moon landing project, the astronauts had to climb out of the living module and enter the lunar module from the outside.

Now you understand how rough (insane) and crude (crazy) space technology was back then....

To land on the Moon, the Apollo program’s Saturn V rocket used five F1 rocket engines with a single combustion chamber, each generating 680 tons of thrust in a hydrogen-oxygen open cycle. The Union developed the RD170 rocket engine with four combustion chambers and 800 tons of thrust for the "Energy Blizzard" space shuttle program.

The latter was modified and derived by Russia into various models, and to this day, this family of engines remains the most advanced and powerful liquid oxygen kerosene rocket engines in the world, even sought after by America.

After the emergence of the products from that frenzied era, even though they had fallen out of use and even though their countries could no longer produce them, they had a profound impact and became an indelible part of human space exploration history.

China’s aerospace industry started later and, for the most part, followed in the footsteps of the last century, rarely achieving anything groundbreaking.

But now things were different. The aerospace sector was filled with images of H1; the series of "big steps" taken by the space agency also felt extraordinary.

Of course, the entities most shocked by the broadcast were the national space agencies of Russia and America—and Ma’s Sky Fork.

Perhaps as a show of dissatisfaction, the next day, on November 12th, the hastily completed 12th Falcon 9 lost control of its attitude at an altitude of 4000 meters during recovery, resulting in the rocket body breaking apart and exploding.

SpaceX engine inventory -9, Falcon 9 rocket -1.