Chapter 2019: The technical difficulty is too low, I dont bother to study it!
"Through our unremitting efforts, our Walker series spacecraft now meet the conditions for carrying ordinary tourists.
Ordinary tourists do not need to undergo lengthy and professional training. In general, they only need one month of preparation and relevant knowledge and skills training to meet the relevant requirements for riding this spacecraft into space.
In fact, our spacecraft does not require manual intervention from launch into space to space flight and even the entire landing process. Everything is controlled by the onboard intelligent control system.
No manual intervention is required unless absolutely necessary.
Therefore, passengers on the spacecraft do not need to have much professional knowledge and skills and can just be ordinary passengers. Of course, in order to deal with some possible emergencies, we will arrange one or two professional astronauts for each mission
Come and travel with the passengers so that they can manually take over control of the spacecraft in an emergency."
"Training for relevant personnel has begun, and we have also entrusted the aerospace department to help us train several aerospace personnel with basic professional skills to be responsible for the team leader and spacecraft driving and control tasks of the Walker series spacecraft to and from space in the future.
At present, more than half of the training process for these personnel has been completed. It is expected that within a period of time, these personnel will be able to complete relevant training and graduate and assume relevant launch missions at any time.
In addition, space tourism projects for ordinary tourists are also being actively promoted. As we all know, sending ordinary tourists to space requires a series of preparations, as well as some cumbersome procedures, etc.
For example, we have airworthiness qualifications, tourist guide qualifications, etc.
Although our Walker series spacecraft are safe enough, any space mission is accompanied by high risks, because in the vast space, we don't know what will happen.
Therefore, we also need to prepare an accident insurance for all passengers to ensure that in some unexpected situations, passengers and their families can receive considerable compensation.
But everyone also knows that there is no precedent for this kind of space travel insurance, and it is a completely new type of insurance. So how to get it is an issue that needs to be discussed and formulated by all parties."
"Finally, we also need to carry out relevant cooperation with the aerospace department and other institutions. For example, for space travel, we cannot let everyone be crowded in the spacecraft all the time.
We still need to be able to provide all passengers with a more comfortable and warm space journey as much as possible, so it is definitely not appropriate to rely solely on manned spacecraft. We must have a space station, or build a space hotel, so that tourists can travel in space
You can have a longer vision of living in space and experience a unique space life.”
"According to the original plan, we were preparing to build an independent commercial space station, specifically for civilian space and aerospace technology research, as well as for receiving tourists.
However, as many countries and some companies are currently engaged in their own so-called commercial space station projects, this also makes us rethink this project.
We are not afraid of business competition, but we do not want to waste more resources in this meaningless competition.
Therefore, we currently have great differences within us as to whether to build this civilian space station.
In addition, we are also actively cooperating with the aerospace department and participating in the construction and operation of the Tiangong Space Station. It would be great if relevant cooperation can be achieved. But everyone also knows that the Tiangong Space Station
The main mission is scientific research. Whether the mission attributes can be changed and operational projects can be added remains to be studied and discussed, and it is not yet determined.
In short, we have been actively promoting this project and working hard to send our country's first space tourist into space as soon as possible.
I believe it won’t take long, and everyone will definitely see it.” Wu Hao said with a smile to the reporters in the audience.
Wu Hao spoke very frankly, and the reporters present also listened very carefully. Especially the domestic reporters, who were afraid of missing any content, listened carefully and took notes at the same time.
"Mr. Wu, according to what you just said, is your company likely to give up the construction of the commercial space station project? What are your considerations? Is it just that you don't want to engage in meaningless competition with other companies?"
A domestic male reporter took the microphone and stood up, looking at Wu Hao while looking at the contents of his notebook and asking him questions.
Hearing the reporter's question, Wu Hao smiled and shook his head: "Of course not!"
"First of all, I didn't say that I wanted to cancel this project, I just said that there are great differences within our company regarding this project.
As we all know, aerospace projects require huge investment. Any aerospace project starts with tens of millions or hundreds of millions, let alone the space station, which is billions to tens of billions in scale.
We naturally have to consider the investment at this stage carefully. Not only from the perspective of technical research, but also from the perspective of market benefits.
We are a private enterprise, and all our investments come from our own business revenue, and every penny is extremely precious. It is undoubtedly a huge investment for us to invest billions or even tens of billions in such a project.
A huge gamble.
If you succeed, then everything is easy to say, but if you fail, you may really lose everything.
Therefore, before a project is initiated, we must consider all factors. Only after confirming that these factors can be taken into consideration, weighing the pros and cons, and having a relatively high degree of confidence, will we officially decide to initiate the project.
It's easy to say that the project hasn't started, but once the project starts, it means there is no turning back.
As far as the current project is concerned, whether it is the scientific research and technology department or the market operation department, everyone thinks that the competitiveness or advantages of this project are not that obvious, and it may even be useless, and it may even be an invisible burden for us.
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First of all, from a technical perspective, the space station technology is both difficult and simple. It is actually a larger spacecraft and a larger spaceship.
For most people and countries, it is undoubtedly the crown of aerospace technology, the crystallization of the development of aerospace technology, and a lofty existence. However, for some powerful countries and companies, it is not out of reach. A little bit
Some countries or companies that have accumulated aerospace technology are planning their own space station projects.
At present alone, we have heard that more than a dozen countries and companies have announced their own space station construction plans.
Therefore, for aerospace technology companies like ours, which have a little bit of foundation, it is slightly less challenging."
Wu Hao's words were very tactful, but in the ears of reporters, it was undoubtedly that the technical difficulty was too low and they did not bother to study it.
