"Healthy competition!" Fortseva was watching Khrushchev's speech on TV. Just as she was thinking this, there was a knock on the apartment door, and she immediately got up and opened the door.
A boy wearing a red scarf appeared in front of him and said angrily to Fortseva, "Mother."
"School is over?" Fortseva had a hint of doting on her face, then looked at the man and woman behind her son and said, "Please come in, I just came back from Poland and I'm helping to pick up the children. It's really troublesome."
"No, Alexeyev is very obedient." The woman who spoke had a very gentle tone, but she was tall. Different from her tall figure, her face was extremely delicate, and she was not inferior to any woman. Her hair was
Gold, draped on the shoulders.
"Come in and sit down." Fortseva invited the couple in and asked while cleaning up. "It's been a long time since we last met. Alexeyev is still so clingy to you, but I say, Ekaterina, don't you
Are you ready to have a child?"
The two people, who were obviously husband and wife, looked at each other and said at the same time in a relaxed manner, "Don't be in a hurry. Work is your priority."
"Well, I don't understand what's going on with Lubyanka." Fortseva sat on the sofa with her son and started chatting with her friends.
Khrushchev's speech had just ended, and the topic naturally revolved around the currently most popular aerospace project.
"The intercontinental missile project was tested in Poland, which has obviously stabilized the situation in Poland and Hungary. Of course, I do not deny that in the face of these comrades who have fallen into misunderstandings for a while, they also need to temporarily leave their jobs and calm down. This kind of thing is the Ministry of National Defense
It is best not to come forward and leave it to our counter-revolutionary workers."
When talking about Poland and Hungary, the man was full of energy and spoke like an expert.
"I want to be like Uncle Yura in the future." Fortseva's son was obviously very familiar with these uncles and aunts, and said in a tone that was not unfamiliar at all.
"The red scarf on the chest is more vivid." Ekaterina reached out to grab the child's red scarf and encouraged with a smile.
"Secretary Fortseva, Alexeyev is already ten years old." The man looked at the half-grown child in front of him with deep eyes, and then changed the topic, "Alexeyev, you must first...
You will have to be the director of the General Administration within thirty years. During this period, you will also need to have experience abroad. You will have to work in an embassy in some country for a period of time. If you have nothing to do, consider learning another foreign language. Maybe you can speak like this by then."
Speaking of which, the man took out a patterned short knife from his coat and handed it to Fortseva's son, "I'll give you this Damascus steel knife. Remember to use it wisely."
"Then, Secretary Fortseva, we'll leave first." After sitting for a while, the two stood up and said goodbye and left Fortseva's apartment.
"Why did you give away the fruit knife that has been used for so long?" the woman asked her husband, tilting her head.
The man took out another Damascus steel knife like a magic trick and said lightly, "Replicas. Towering trees need to grow from saplings, and ears of wheat also need to be carefully cared for before they can be of value."
"Indeed, it would be too bullying if we were here." The woman understood her partner's thoughts very well, "Find a chance to leave?"
"This time Fortseva proposed to conduct an intercontinental missile test in Poland. If nothing else happens, she will be promoted." The man put his arm around his wife's shoulders and walked on the streets of Moscow. "Maybe within thirty years, her son will really be able to do this.
Go to the Director General."
"Don't use mental enhancement on others in the future." The woman reacted immediately upon hearing this. The revolutionary partner took action. Fortseva's son must have kept today's words in mind and regarded it as a dream to realize.
"I know, I know, dear, it just makes him firm in his faith and tougher mentally, which is a good thing."
Facing his wife's accusation, the man was helpless. He didn't want to bully others, but couldn't he cultivate an aspiring young man?
"But when I think about leaving, I still feel a little bit reluctant to leave Fortseva. I haven't seen her for a long time." The woman sighed a little, but she also knew that it was a matter of morning and evening, but when she saw the students wearing red scarves after school,
She still felt a little emotional.
"The temperature in October is still a bit cold." The man took off his gray military coat and put it on his wife.
The effect of Khrushchev's speech was very obvious. Although he said such words in his capacity, although it referred to healthy competition, in the eyes of Washington, it was a move to provoke the United States to take the lead.
In 1956, the United States was in a period of prosperity. Every citizen of the United States of America was extremely proud of his country. The citizens of the city on the top of the mountain were full of hope for the country. Seeing Khrushchev like this
Her husband's provocations became more and more intolerable.
At this moment, Alan Wilson accompanied the minister and landed at the airport built next to the Wumera launch site. It was still some distance away from the inside of the Wumera launch site. Fortunately, the launch site had sent a special car to receive them.
Alan Wilson had been here before and was no longer curious about the Womera launch site. But Harold Wilson was different. This was the first time he saw what the launch center looked like. He was very interested in the British launch site in 1947.
The launch site that invested huge amounts of money to build is full of curiosity.
"Alan, have you been here?" Harold Wilson immediately sensed that the colonial commissioner looked dull.
"Although the Wumera launch site does not seem to be related to my work, as an important overseas asset, I still have to understand it. It is a facility that can accommodate 5,000 people to work. Now there are
The support of this government should allow the UK to occupy a place among the countries developing aerospace in the world."
The theory related to aerospace is much easier than the practice. Even the United Kingdom has related plans. Who knows that compared with practice, discussions do not consume much money.
But even so, Alan Wilson only described it as occupying a position. Not to mention how much manpower and material resources the Soviet Union, as the first country to practice the aerospace industry, used.
But he knew the money spent on the U.S. Apollo program. At the peak of the project, 20,000 companies, more than 200 universities and more than 80 scientific research institutions participated in the project, with a total number of more than 300,000 people involved.
Two hundred and four billion U.S. dollars, that was the era of the gold standard.
How does this manpower and material resources compare to the current United Kingdom? With such national support, even if the Soviet Union is now making faster progress, it is still unclear who will win, but what is certain is that the United Kingdom will definitely not be able to catch up.
In the early days of the Cold War, Britain launched a series of plans covering all aspects, most of which ended in vain because of lack of money.
Although the current Britain can invest and is much stronger than the original Britain in history, it cannot make such a large investment decision. This is more than the British military expenditure in ten years.
The only thing Alan Wilson can be sure of now is that if the competition for space becomes intense soon, Eisenhower may not wait until Kennedy comes to power to launch a national mobilization and the Soviet Union's moon landing plan. Kennedy's impressive political achievements may be reduced by one
.
Just look at when the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite into the sky and inspired the United States' war consciousness.
After entering the Woomera launch site, Harold Wilson expressed the current government’s support and encouragement for the aerospace industry, “The government, individuals and state-owned enterprises have spent a total of 130 million pounds as research in the rocket field.
Support. In the future, there will be an influx of talents from many universities and hundreds of companies providing help."
"Whether Great Britain can gain an advantage in this most pioneering field depends on the efforts of scientific researchers."
At the Wumera Launch Site Conference Center, Harold Wilson gave some chicken soup and encouraged the British researchers at the launch site. Unfortunately, he did not know that similar words had been said by the colonial commissioner who had visited before.
Behind the warm applause was what Harold Wilson said was an allocation of 130 million pounds. 90 million pounds belonged to the government, 30 million pounds belonged to funds including the Malayan Colony, and 10 million pounds belonged to the Mountbatten Group.
including private financial support.
The 1.3 billion pounds cannot be compared with the tens of billions invested by the United States, but this figure is already the order figure of Australia’s arms sales, France and India’s arms sales combined, which is enough for the UK to build four heavy aircraft carriers. Attlee Cabinet
It’s not that we don’t support it.
When Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union were each mobilizing to compete in the field of rockets, the French capital Paris, Chairman of the French Council of Ministers and Secretary of the Socialist Party Guy Mollet, after continuous parliamentary discussions, officially announced the launch of France's space program.
Congress approved the construction of a space center in Algeria.
One hundred and thirty large French national companies have joined the ranks of rocket development and manufacturing. France's aerospace program has officially launched and joined the aerospace competition.
At this point, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France have all announced their own space programs. The United States and the Soviet Union independently implemented the space program, while the United Kingdom and Australia teamed up to jointly undertake the space program. After success, technology will be shared. France has established a space center in Algeria.
within the territory.
"It would be best to establish the space center in French Guiana." After learning about the French actions, Alan Wilson couldn't help but shake his head. Algeria's location is only slightly better than the Soviet Union's Baikonur Space Launch Site.
But he is not French, and he has no obligation to remind him that Britain is not qualified to be a teacher of the French in the field of aerospace. It is even more satisfying that Australia has allocated 20 million Australian dollars in support.
At this point, two emerging post-war elites and two old colonial empires have entered the market. The advantage for the British side is that the detailed steps of the space program that Harold Wilson is about to bring back to London are very clear. As for other advantages, there are really no...