Chapter 1593 From one failure to another (third update, please subscribe)
"Whether people are talking about the victory of the Soviet Union, they are talking about It's Pearl Harbor."
In the official residence, Wang Guoqiang, the representative to Washington who had just returned from the United States, reported:
"For the United States, the blow this time was even far more than that of Pearl. Hong Kong incident. Almost all Americans, whether men, women, elderly or children, believe that - they must defeat the Soviets at all costs! "
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"Of course in the space field, in Washington, some senators led by McCarthy have submitted bills to investigate the moon landing plan, investigating why the United States lost the race? Investigating external resistance in this race against the United States The impact of failure. "
When hearing the old friend's name, Li Yian's lips raised. With his intervention, this old friend did not challenge the military at the top of his ability.
It is also because of this that McCarthy was not inscribed in the cold palace. Instead, he continued to play his remaining energy in Washington as a senator, but his popularity has already emerged.
But now, the failure of the Moon Tournament gave McCarthy the opportunity, and he once again picked up the big stick.
"This guy can always seize opportunities that others cannot see."
Li Yian said with a smile. "Yes, sir, when I left Washington, I had already started working on the McCarthy's committee of inquiry, and they had already had a preliminary consensus that the US moon landing program was politically and other aspects of influence. ”
This is McCarthy!
He can always find some reasons to explain some failures. This time he did not point the finger at the other side, but at the inside. "He believes that some members of Congress have hindered the implementation of the moon landing plan and affected the smooth progress of the moon landing plan in various aspects such as funding."
Wang Guoqiang thought for a while and said:
"As for the current situation in Washington, the White House must need a scapegoat, and McCarthy's investigation may help the White House to clear the siege.
Of course, this investigation It will also help the US aerospace industry. After all, it has become a kind of political correctness in the United States now that it is now a matter of political correctness to develop aerospace technology.
No member of lawmakers will also accuse the space program of spending a lot of money. Not only that, many people in Congress advocated that there should be more funds. To defeat the Soviets, some members of the parliament even asked NASA to formulate plans to land on Mars. "
"Let's land on Mars!"
Li Yian said in a daze.
"These Americans can really think of it."
In addition to feeling, Li Yian felt a little relieved.
Because the stud in the United States now is exactly what he wants to see.
Faced with the fact that the Soviets first landed on the moon and in the face of failure, although the United States suffered an unprecedented psychological blow, they immediately went all out to try to catch up with the Soviet Union and eventually surpassed the Soviet Union in this field. .
Whether it is catching up or surpassing, it requires a lot of investment, which means that the United States will invest more strength and more funds in this track.
And what does this mean?
In other words, the United States will launch an unprecedented space competition. As losers, they will do their best to surpass the Soviets with greater goals.
How could the Soviets, who are currently in the leading position, tolerate the United States overtaking them?
So, the Soviets who received unprecedented honors. To be precise, the emperor of the medal will definitely not sit idly by. If the Soviet Union was surpassed, he will increase his investment in the aerospace field like Khrushchev, thereby ensuring the Soviet Union's leading position.
Aerospace is not just aerospace. If you want to develop aerospace technology, you must promote the development of various fields.
Compared with the arms race, the value of this scientific race will be the greatest in the Cold War. It's also the most exciting scene.
How far will the United States and the Soviet Union promote scientific development when part of their power is used for competition in the aerospace field?
That comes to mind.
Li Yian couldn't help but be full of expectations,
Because this competition will be more intense and exciting than in history.
In order to win this game, both the United States and the Soviet Union will even be at all costs.
In this kind of promotion at all costs, the research results he has achieved will be unprecedented!
"Mars,"
Looking at the Americans' "crazy imagination", Li Yian said:
"When the United States wants to win this competition, Mars may be their only chance!"
When he said this to Wang Guoqiang, Li Yian couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic to the Americans. In the past ten years, the United States has The blow suffered was unprecedented. First, the Soviet Union launched an artificial satellite, giving the United States a "Sputnik moment". Lyndon Johnson, who was still a Senator at the time, called this the "second Pearl Harbor incident."
As for the later Astronauts competition, the United States also... fell behind again. The only thing that made them happy was that it was not that it lost to the Soviet Union, but that the SEA was leading.
It is precisely because of this that the United States turns its attention to the moon and tries to regain the prestige of the United States' leading brother through landing on the moon.
After all, the two failures have caused the whole world to question the ability of this leader.
So, from Eisenhower's "Apollo Project" began, it became the most priority project, and to the Kennedy era, it became Kennedy's political tool - he tried to achieve this goal during his tenure, and as a result, He had a big idea.
Then before Linden and Johnson's butt were still hot, the "second Pearl Harbor incident" he had sworn to say came again.
When the United States went from failure to failure, Li Yian couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic to the American people. After all, they once thought they were the number one in Blue Star, but this face hurts!
Not once, but several times!
"How are the Americans now?"
"Your Excellency, the continuous blows the United States has disappointed the Americans. They never expected that the United States would suffer so many failures. You, the United States now , Many people are questioning whether the United States is the number one in Blue Star. There is currently a consensus among all walks of life in the United States - they have been completely surpassed by the Soviet Union. "
Look, this self-confidence blow Yes, it's a bit heavy!
Wang Guoqiang's answer made Li Yian sigh: "Hey, Americans are a little fragile. This kind of transcendence is only temporary. No one can always be in the lead in technology. Moreover, the United States The current backwardness in the aerospace field is that it has been a temporary backwardness, which is harmless."
"Your Excellency, even though you say that, it still has a great blow to the morale of the United States."
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one bar, one bar!
When emphasizing the heavy blow of morale, Wang Guoqiang emphasized:
"But Americans will definitely not sink into it because of this. They are catching up with it with all their might. I believe that in the future, they will invest more The power is in the aerospace field. Perhaps, they can really go to Mars. After all, this is related to the honor of the country! "
Li Yian nodded deeply and said with deep consent.
"Yes, this is about honor. Sometimes, for people, honor is really important..."
Especially for Americans who seemed to be booming and magnificent after winning World War II. He said that these loud slaps made them confused and smashed their pride.
So, the rest is to give your all.
The moon can be red now, but the United States will definitely catch up with it, and it will be at all costs.
Is this space race more interesting than an arms race?
"This will be a whole new era!"
This will be a whole new era!
As time is about to enter a new year, the whole world seems to be in full swing.
On November 27, the Soviet Union launched their lunar spacecraft, and three days later, Soviet astronaut Gagarin became the first human to land on the moon.
On December 26, the United States' Apollo 6 was finally launched. Three and a half days later, the Apollo 6 spacecraft landed on the lunar module. Armstrong stepped onto the gaze of hundreds of millions of spectators around the world. He is no longer the first person to land on the moon. There is no way to say that sentence again, "This is a small step for the individual, a big step for the human being."
But even so, the United States tied the Soviet Union's achievements in just one month and still attracted the attention of the whole world.
The sensation caused in the Western world is no less than the success of the Soviet Union's moon landing. And in the Vatican. The pope also prayed for the astronauts himself, which was a treatment that Soviet astronauts had not enjoyed.
A few days later, Armstrong and others successfully returned to Earth. While the United States is cheering for this victory, the White House has released a new plan - the United States will build a permanent space station on the moon.
This lunar space station is not just for scientific research. In the near future, the lunar space station will be a transit station for humans to fly into distant outer space.
"Mars!
Asteroid!
In the next few decades, we will set off from the moon, head to other planets and eventually exit the solar system."
Linden Johnson's speech shocked the world, after all, he was sending a challenge to the Soviet Union. Or it is telling the Soviet Union that the United States has chosen this track, and now it is your turn to come.
This challenge of the Soviet Union may only not admit defeat. The Soviet Union's Pravda subsequently published an article in which Soviet scientists talked about the future prospects of the moon - by taking on the moon In the lunar soil, scientists have discovered a variety of minerals on the moon.
"This also means that it is extremely possible to develop the moon."
The Soviet Union developed the moon development plan to respond to challenges from the United States in essence.
In this way, when the new year comes, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union is constantly increasing.
(This chapter ends)