Chapter 10: Absolutely impossible

Time is tight, and the task is heavy.

The biggest problem now is that he still doesn't know the time flow of 1960.

That is to say, how much time corresponds to 1960 for every 24 hours he spends in 2020.

It has already been 12 hours now. In Lin Ran's idea, he needs to get the Fabian Society badge as soon as possible and then return to 1960.

He is just an inconspicuous little shrimp in 2020, and no one will notice no matter how long he disappears.

But he is in 1960, and there is a NASA engineer like Haines by his side. The other party is somewhat famous within NASA.

After returning to 2020 to read NASA's official public information, Lin Ran realized that Haines was a core member of a series of aerospace projects in the 60s.

And if he fakes a Fabian Society badge, if time permits, this might not be a way.

The biggest bug now is that time does not allow it.

But this still has some problems. He only knows what the badge looks like, but he doesn't know if the badge has any anti-counterfeiting designs.

Once there is an anti-counterfeiting design and it is seen as a fake, then another trouble arises.

Therefore, no matter from which aspect, obtaining the ancestral Fabian Society badge from Li Xiaoman's hands is the best way.

"Sister Xiaoman, I have a way to earn a lot of dollars in a short period of time, but this plan needs your cooperation."

Last night, the two drove for four hours overnight to rush back to America, which means they arrived at their residence at four in the morning, and it has only been an hour and a half now. Li Xiaoman had just fallen asleep when she was knocked on the door by Lin Ran and called to the public space on the 3rd floor.

Li Xiaoman's anger value was about to be full. She was not like Lin Ran, who had just been transformed and could keep her brain calm even if she didn't sleep for three days and three nights.

No matter how calm she was usually, and no matter how ambiguous her relationship with Lin Ran was, being tossed like this was really unbearable.

"Randolph, what on earth are you doing!

No matter how big the money-making plan is, I only want to sleep now."

Lin Ran said: "Once this plan is completed, it can earn one hundred million dollars or even more."

Li Xiaoman was immediately excited. Obviously, money is the most direct stimulant for the brain.

Especially what Lin Ran mentioned was 100 million dollars.

This is not a small number.

It is true that Li Xiaoman has a family background, but she really has no money.

After her parents died, she lived in the ancestral property left by her grandfather with her uncle and aunt. She lived on the third floor, and the rest were lived in by her uncle and aunt.

And she didn't know how much property her parents left her at all. It is estimated that even if her uncle and aunt had it, they would not leave it to her.

Secondly, she should have half of the property rights of this house in name, but in fact, her uncle and aunt did not intend to give her half of the property rights at all.

Finally, there are scholarships for PhDs in science and engineering, but she is a PhD in law. Not to mention scholarships, the tuition is terrifyingly high, tens of thousands of dollars a year.

That is a public school. If it were changed to Columbia University, this number would have to be tripled.

Otherwise, given her family background, she would definitely have to go to the gathering place of the Frankfurt School—Columbia University—to read for a PhD.

Li Xiaoman relied on work-study programs and loans, and also rented out her house to barely maintain her life.

Later, when she came out to be a lawyer, if she wanted to intern at a top law firm, she even needed to pay back money herself.

Therefore, the attraction of mentioning money was undoubtedly huge.

Li Xiaoman first asked: "You are not joking with me, are you?"

Lin Ran shook his head: "I have never been a person who would joke about such things. Furthermore, even if I wanted to joke, it is impossible to joke with you at six in the morning, and after you painstakingly sent me back."

Li Xiaoman said: "Give me two minutes, let's talk in your room later." She didn't want her uncle and aunt to hear about this big business.

Two minutes later, Lin Ran saw Li Xiaoman with water stains on her face in his room. Obviously, she relied on washing her face to recover her sobriety, and now the whole person was full of fighting spirit, and she was an elite image again.

"Look, in March last year, the White House announced at the 5th meeting of the National Space Council that America would return to the moon before 2024, which is 4 years earlier than NASA's original time.

And this document is the 2020 annual budget passed by NASA on April 2, which includes rockets, Orion spacecraft, the Lunar Gateway, and commercial moon landers.

Among them, the commercial moon lander started risk verification this year, and subsequent bidding will adopt a multi-stage contracting method.

Multi-stage contracting: NextSTEP mode, that is, NASA provides technical guidance, while specific companies are responsible for commercial development.

NASA earliest used this mode to support two commercial aerospace organizations, one of which is SpaceX."

Li Xiaoman already regretted it, looking at Lin Ran with the eyes of looking at a fool: "You don't want to tell me that you want to participate in NASA's multi-stage contracting, do you?

Just the two of us?

I know that the project you did for your university graduation design was the Apollo moon landing, and you feel that you have really participated in the Apollo moon landing."

Li Xiaoman felt that this was even more outrageous than teasing her, and it was even more outrageous than all the Hollywood blockbusters she had seen.

Lin Ran explained: "There are differences in the details from what you think, but the things to do might be even more outrageous.

NASA adopts a bidding method for commercial moon landings. It is almost only possible for Ma Sike's SpaceX to win the bid.

But obviously, whether it is the public information or the terrible personal relationship between Bezos and Ma Sike, Blue Origin must have a share in this.

If I can help Blue Origin win this project, how many dollars in rewards are they willing to give me?"

Li Xiaoman was already speechless: "Your premise is based on the impossible.

But the problem is, how can you help Blue Origin get NASA's order?

Are you the administrator of NASA or the director of the White House National Space Council?"

Lin Ran thought, if I saved Kennedy in 1963, then I might really be able to be the administrator of NASA.

Lin Ran said: "What if I can help Blue Origin take the lead in returning to the moon?"

Li Xiaoman got up and prepared to leave: "Randolph, you are indeed sick. What you need is rest. I heard a joke even more outrageous than a joke today."

In order to exercise her Chinese ability, Li Xiaoman usually asked Lin Ran to speak Chinese with her.

One called the other Sister Xiaoman, and the other called Randolph. Chinese students at the State University of New York felt strange when they heard it when they gathered with them.

Lin Ran hurriedly grabbed Li Xiaoman's hand: "Xiaoman, I know you think this is incredible.

But this is what I am going to do next.

America successfully landed on the moon in 1969 and has completed a total of 6 moon landing operations since then.

But now it is impossible to land on the moon again. The historical technical materials are still there. In the process of going to Cherry Springs to stargaze this time, I figured out a core technical problem.

After this technical problem is solved, finding the historical data, it is entirely possible to complete the moon landing using the technical path of the Apollo moon landing.

What we need to do is to let Blue Origin believe that we can do it, complete this plan with Bezos's resources, and get money from Blue Origin." ===== CHAPTER 11 =====