Chapter 449 Three Steps to Manned Spaceflight

Manned spaceflight involves all aspects.

Seven major fields: biology, information, aerospace, laser, automation, materials and energy!

The restart of the manned space program is naturally very exciting.

But the huge investment is still too much to bear.

For the construction of the "Beidou Satellite Navigation System" project, the state only needs to coordinate, organize, and develop. It does not really require much money from the state. Most of the investment is made by Panshan Group, which takes the lead and plays a leading role, and the Aerospace Corporation conducts Cooperate and assist.

But the manned space project is different. It requires the state to pay for it. Even if the early technical demonstration and early technology accumulation do not require much investment, the total investment is 10 billion yuan, which is divided into ten years. The initial investment is relatively small, and the later investment is larger. .

But even so, the country feels that it is too much to spend such a large amount of money.

After all, in terms of military expenditure, the state invests nearly 20 billion yuan every year, and a lot of military equipment has to be withheld from Panshan Group through tax.

At this time, it was naturally embarrassing to let Panshan Group bear the cost of the entire manned space project.

The space shuttle is very good, but China cannot afford it. Even if China can build a space shuttle, it cannot afford a space shuttle.

The space shuttle is like Bai Fumei, but now China is just a poor man.

I really can’t afford it!

Even if a poor loser is lucky enough to get Bai Fumei, he cannot afford to support Bai Fumei.

Other participants saw that China's first-generation chief scientist and second-generation chief scientist both agreed with the technical route of the spacecraft. Naturally, there was nothing controversial about the technical route of the manned project.

Such is the influence of a chief scientist.

At the meeting, Mr. Qian mentioned that my country’s manned spaceflight should implement a “three-step” development strategy:

The first step is to launch a manned spacecraft, build a preliminary supporting experimental manned spacecraft project and carry out space application experiments.

The second step is to make breakthroughs in astronaut extravehicular activity technology and space vehicle rendezvous and docking technology, launch a space laboratory, and solve short-term manned space application problems on a certain scale.

The third step is to build a space station to solve the problem of large-scale long-term manned space applications.

Each step takes about ten years!

It will take 30 years for China's manned space technology and China's aerospace technology to reach the current level of the United States and the Soviet Union.

It can be said that the impact of this aerospace science and technology conference is very far-reaching, and it can almost be said to determine the development direction and strategy of China's aerospace industry in the next thirty years!

The entire meeting lasted for three days in total before it came to a complete success and came to an end.

At the age of 74, Qian Lao once again took on the important task of serving as the commander-in-chief of China's manned space project. Wang Yongzhi was appointed as the chief designer of China's manned space project.

Liu Tao has a feeling of changing history and witnessing history.

You should know that China's satellite navigation did not start the development of the Beidou satellite navigation test system until 1994. In 2000, it launched two geostationary satellites to realize regional navigation functions. In 2003, it launched a backup satellite. The establishment of the Beidou satellite navigation test system was completed.

At that time, China planned to join the EU's Galileo positioning system program and invested 230 million euros in the next few years. Unfortunately, the EU's arrogance forced China to independently develop the Beidou satellite navigation system (Beidou-2)!

As for the manned space project, it was not officially launched until 1992 in the previous life.

And now the manned spaceflight project is 7 years ahead of schedule!

There is no report on the Beidou Satellite Navigation System project. The reports are all on China’s manned project.

The news that China was going to implement a manned spaceflight project quickly spread throughout the country and abroad.

Domestic people are looking forward to it. Every Chinese has a space dream. In this era, seeing the huge gap between China and Europe and the United States, many Chinese people are very unconfident and even confused.

Manned spaceflight is undoubtedly an move to reunite people's hearts and boost their self-confidence.

Overseas, there is all kinds of cynicism.

For the Soviet Union and the United States, they have achieved manned spaceflight long ago. They know how difficult it is to achieve manned spaceflight. With China's current technology, it is simply impossible to achieve manned spaceflight, let alone build a space station.

The Soviet Union and the United States knew only too well how much investment there was in the aerospace field.

However, they are also happy to see China invest money in aerospace, which can slow down China's development.

In Europe, Japan and other countries, the media were even more cynicistic and ridiculed.

You know, even if Japan is now the second largest economy, it does not dare to hope for manned spaceflight. As for Europe, they are the traditional Western powers, and they have only a handful of capabilities in aerospace.

They are not optimistic about China's manned space project at all.

Are you kidding me? If China achieves manned spaceflight, wouldn't it mean that China has surpassed them and become the third country in the world to achieve manned spaceflight and master manned spaceflight technology after the Soviet Union and the United States?

Regardless of how the outside world reacts, the two huge aerospace projects, the 'Beidou Satellite Navigation System' project and the 'Manned Spaceflight Project', have begun to unfold in an orderly manner.

Form a technical team to build matching ground projects.

For example, the Beidou Satellite Navigation System project requires the establishment of 1 main control station, 3 data injection stations and 5 monitoring stations on the ground.

These must be constructed immediately.

For the war in the south, Liu Tao built a temporary main control station in Kun City so that the three "Beidou Navigation Test Satellites" in space could be used on the battlefield.

Although the three "Beidou Navigation Test Satellites" are large and small, they can initially form a regional navigation system.

The accuracy can even reach 10 meters!

And the supporting projects of the "Manned Spaceflight Project" are even more, it is necessary to establish an astronaut training center, to establish more advanced ground monitoring stations and sea monitoring ships, and to develop a launch vehicle with greater capacity.

Of course, there is also the development of manned spacecraft.

Before the manned spacecraft can realize real manned spaceflight, a series of tests must be carried out, and at least three or four spacecraft must be built. Only when it is confirmed that biological life can be safely brought back to the ground from space will manned spaceflight be truly carried out.

Whether it is the "Beidou Navigation Satellite System" project or the "Manned Spaceflight Project", they are all national key projects, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the efforts of the whole country.

Funding is one aspect, and the technical team is another.

Space technology has never been something that can be achieved with money.

For example, the oil-producing countries in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, are very rich, but they cannot engage in aerospace because they lack aerospace-related technicians and aerospace industry!

Panshan Group can solve the funding problem of the "Beidou Navigation Satellite System" project, but it cannot solve the problem of the corresponding technical team.

In this regard, the country needs to coordinate and organize talents.

And this master control station must be built in Beijing, and this aspect must be built immediately.