"Although it is not comparable in size to space shuttles such as Atlantis and Endeavor built in the last century, it is not a big problem to carry more than ten tons of materials and equipment into outer space."

Unlike Xinghai Research Institute, NASA has neither miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion technology nor aerospace engines that can carry more than ten tons of materials into space. They still use the older generation of space shuttles.

That is, the space shuttle is sent to the sky through external thrusters, and then the space shuttle's own fuel system is used to perform orbital flight, etc.

Although it is far from comparable to the Xinghai Research Institute's space shuttle in terms of flexibility, it can still be considered to be able to freely enter outer space and the atmosphere.

After saying this, Bill Nelson sighed inwardly.

Although they are almost able to reproduce the space shuttle, compared with China, in terms of aerospace strength, if we only look at the space shuttle and launch technology, they are already far behind.

Hearing this relatively good news, the CIA deputy director's frown relaxed a lot.

Since the Xinghai Research Institute developed the electric-propulsion space shuttle, the pressure on the United States' national defense has soared to the highest point in history.

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And they, who had sealed the space shuttle developed in the last century, urgently needed a way to deal with it.

The Endurance space shuttle, developed by NASA in cooperation with the Sierra Nevada Corporation, is not as large as a traditional space shuttle.

But for the United States today, the biggest pressure is not the size, but whether it has the ability.

As long as there is one, even if it is miniaturized, it is enough.

Sighing, the CIA director shook his head, brought himself back to reality, looked at Bill Nelson, and asked:

"In addition, when will the 'pulsed plasma rocket' technology you are researching be completed?"

Although they have lagged behind China in the field of space shuttles, their accumulation in the aerospace field over the past few decades is not for nothing.

'Pulse plasma rocket' technology is one of NASA's reserve accumulation technologies. Compared with the space shuttle, this is NASA's new trump card.

This is a technology in the ‘NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts’ program, which had been established as early as 2013.

However, due to the lack of any rivals in the aerospace field at that time and the huge cost, the plan was shelved by the United States. It only invested a relatively small amount of money for NASA to conduct research, and no other actions were taken.

Now, restarting the quantitative technology in the plan is also a move they are forced to make.

I have to say that times are changing really fast.

They have always claimed to be number one in aerospace, but they were forced to this point in the aerospace field.
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