Reborn multinational giant

The rocket body, which is more than one story high and tens of meters long, is like a round giant wrapped in white iron, lying quietly in the huge production workshop.

Two or three workers in gray clothes were busy at the end of the rocket's body, riding on a ladder-shaped workbench as high as one person.

Fang Zhe, who walked into the workshop, looked around curiously after a brief shock.

The entire workshop is as high as several tens of meters, how long?Fang Zhe didn't know, because looking around, there were at least four huge rocket fuselages in the workshop, each of them resembling a sleeping giant!

Although Fang Zhe has been to aerospace museums several times, this is the first time that Fang Zhe has entered the rocket production workshop. Therefore, it is inevitable that he will feel shocked.

Like Fang Zhe, the accompanying Li Wen and the female legal agent were also full of amazement. If it weren’t for Huang Siyi to connect with paypal’s investment work, and this female legal agent won the lottery among several entourages, she How could it be possible to get one of the three only places.

Musk has a smile on his face. He knows that because of China’s special environment, most ordinary people have no way to enter the rocket production workshop. Even in the United States, there is no rocket production workshop open to the public. They can come because of Own the Rocket Company?

Thinking of this, Musk is a little proud. Although he admits that Fang Zhe is richer than him and has more achievements in his career, he is the only one who has such things as electric cars and rockets. Ability to do!

While visiting, Fang Zhe and others listened to the explanation of the workshop staff, from the origin of the rocket model, the length of the rocket, the weight of the rocket, to the rocket propulsion power, speed, launch cost and other non-confidential rocket-related information. Zhe and others were so insightful, and Musk accompanied him during the whole process.

As Fang Zhe told Musk in the car, every man has a dream in space, and for rich men, it is not impossible to realize this dream, just like Musk invested in and founded SpaceX, Amazon’s founder Bezos, also invested in the aerospace company, Blue Origin!

However, due to domestic environmental reasons, Fang Zhe wants to invest in a private aerospace company, like Musk and Bezos, to invest in a private aerospace company, which is almost impossible. So Fang Zhe Zhe's goal can only be placed abroad.

SpaceX was founded by Musk in 2002. After just 9 years, it has the development and launch capabilities of the "Falcon 9" equivalent to the domestic Long March 7 medium-sized carrier rocket, and has performed more than a dozen commercial services. , This is almost impossible in any country.

Gein, rocket development and launch technology are really something that requires a lot of talents, a lot of funds, and a lot of time to complete. For example, after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, with the help of the whole country and the help of the former Soviet Union, it also took ten years. It took many years to have its own rocket-related technology, and SpaceX did it in just a few years.

The biggest supporter behind it is NASA, NASA.

On the road of exploring the commercialization and privatization of aerospace-related technologies, compared with China, Russia and other countries, which list aerospace as a national project, all development directions give priority to the realization of the goal, and then the cost and private and commercialization are considered. In this regard, NASA, which has accumulated many years of mature technology, ranks first in the global aerospace agency.

Because of this, SpaceX can develop to today's technological accumulation and scale in just a few years, and can easily win relevant orders from NASA and small and medium-sized countries and top companies that require satellite launches worldwide.

Since NASA’s internal space shuttles were retired more than a year ago due to high launch and maintenance costs, SpaceX has even won a part of the "space transportation" business of delivering to the International Space Station, so even if Musk is the face of SpaceX Founder and chairman, but NASA's influence on SpaceX cannot be underestimated.

It is almost a consensus in the global aerospace field to reduce the launch cost and reuse of rockets and other aerospace equipment. When the cost is reduced to a certain level, whether it is space tourism or even space migration, it is a matter of great commercial prospects. In this regard, SpaceX, backed by NASA, is in the forefront of the world.

Therefore, Fang Zhe is extremely "coveted" for SpaceX, whether it is for his own man's dream or from a business perspective.

"Mr. Musk, do you think I personally or Huizhong, do I have the opportunity to invest in SpaceX?" After leaving the rocket production workshop, Fang Zhe motioned to Li Wen and others to distance themselves and chatted with Musk.

Musk naturally saw Fang Zhe’s idea of ​​investing in SpaceX clearly, but because the nature of SpaceX is not like Tesla, it is almost impossible for Fang Zhe to participate in the investment. However, Ma Skr still replied with a smile after more than ten seconds of careful consideration:

"You should know that even if I promise your investment, NASA and the US government will not allow it!"

Fang Zhe listened and smiled helplessly. Indeed, not everything can be solved with money. He said with emotion:

"In fact, I have always felt that there is too much waste in our human society. Whether it is in the aerospace field where SpaceX is located, or in many other industries, there are many things that reproduce wheels.

In my opinion, the advancement of human civilization is based on the advancement of social productivity, reducing waste and not recreating wheels is also a way to increase social productivity. If the whole world can work together in the field of aerospace, I am afraid we will do it now. Flew out of the solar system.

If all countries in the world and all walks of life are not working behind closed doors, and can work together, the development speed of our entire human civilization can be increased several times!"

Fang Zhe’s emotion made Musk feel a little shocked. He was born in South Africa and has dual citizenships in Canada and the United States. He does not have a strong concept and sense of belonging to the country, but he has a particularly strong sense of belonging to humans. The businesses he has been doing, including electric vehicles, SpaceX, solar power and other projects, are all for the benefit of all mankind, and this is also the reason why Fang Zhe admires him and is willing to say these things in front of him.

"The organizational form of society and the development of science and technology are complementary. The ancestors of humans in the Stone Age gave up the claws of animals and opened up wisdom. Humans entered the era of tribes. The use of fire promoted humans to civilization, from tribes to countries, The concept appears, but in just a few thousand years, at a certain point, it will naturally be eliminated.

Space exploration is the cause of all mankind. Regardless of nationality, when Apollo landed on the moon, he was talking about a small step for me, a big step for mankind, not a big step for the Americans.

Although NASA is under the management of the US government, there are many scientists full of ideals among them. They work hard for science and ideals. Maybe we will not be able to see humans immigrating to outer space until we die, but I believe that as long as we work hard, all of this will eventually It will happen!"

Musk felt the same for Fang Zhe’s helplessness. Although he had the intention to let Fang Zhe, a rich man, also support SpaceX’s aerospace industry, this matter is obviously not for him to decide. However, he still said:

"Mr. Fang Zhe, SpaceX can’t let you invest, but you might consider establishing the same private aerospace company in China in the future. Although this will give us SpaceX a competitor, for the sake of all mankind’s dream of exploring space, I don’t mind having one more competitor!"