Chapter 890 – Taming the Minister for the First Time

The successive response of Britain and the United States, immediately caused an uproar in the world, the whole country is boiling, the media people reported the will of the country, countless schools of Qian Qian students, with the idea of serving the country, into the aerospace discipline among the people talk about the competition between the two camps in the field of aerospace.

Taking the telegram Alan Wilson, learned that Cabinet Minister Harold Wilson has departed, rushed to maintain a lazy sitting wife joked, “The Cabinet finally took out a decent attitude this time, originally, as a Labor government, claiming to establish a socialist community of Great Britain, how not to learn the Soviet Union’s national system, even if it is imitation also line. ”

“Learn the Soviet system, you are not very anti-Soviet?” Pamela Mountbatten glanced at her husband with soft almond eyes, “Now you’re saying that the Soviet political system is good, I just can’t understand it.”

“Good for most people, but not good for us. So the enemy is right, they are the enemy.” Alan Wilson said in a spirit of one-or-the-other sincerity, “But there are certain policies we can emulate, and ten years after the war ended, Britain finally took a bit of the sharpness it had in the beginning, even if the end result was less than desirable, and it deserves credit for that.”

“My dear, spaceflight is a feat for the whole of mankind, it will be possible for mankind to escape from the bonds of geo-attraction and fully enjoy the joys of freedom, it is no longer a question of money, if we participate in it, our whole life will be of great significance, and when we are old and dying, we can say with a clear conscience that it was worth it in this life. ”

Pamela Mountbatten had been listening to her husband’s words with just a bland smile on her face, but with the man’s voice she sat up diffidently, and a different kind of luster flashed in her eyes.

The Alan Wilson of this moment was not absolutely different from the past, not the Whitehall bureaucrat who was making money left and right. Nor is it the colonial commissioner in Kuala Lumpur to build a big filter, the bureaucrat’s worldliness and businessman’s brassiness have disappeared, and rarely showed the image of an aspiring young man.

“My dear, whatever you like is fine with me.” Pamela Mountbatten’s love in a pair of almond eyes was almost too thick to melt, and muttered to herself in disbelief, “If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I’d really find it hard to believe that I could hear you say such a thing.”

“It is extremely important for the country to have a heart and spirit, and once that spirit is unloaded, it will be difficult to get it back.” Alan Wilson grabbed his wife’s small hand, “In some areas, don’t look at money so heavily, right?”

If he did not want to destroy his own image of greatness in the eyes of Pamela Mountbatten, Allen Wilson would certainly have a different set of words.

Engage in real estate that is what level of businessmen play things, even the colonial buyers can play, simply no difficulty at all, control of raw materials and how high? It is only the level of a Saudi princely state.

And then a little higher like Japan and South Korea’s consortium, but also powerful not to go, want to be really big and strong, on the high precision to make efforts, oil, iron ore is ultimately just a means, really want to fish leap dragon door, but also to the forefront of mankind.

These words were not said, but the face has been held in the palm of Pamela Mountbatten’s hand, “My dear, I seem to worship you now, which can be completely different from when you spread conspiracy theories.”

“The hardest thing for a writer to overcome is that he or she can no longer express true thoughts in words.” Alan Wilson followed his wife’s hand and kissed it directly, smugly saying, “How can you be the husband of a female president without some merits worth falling in love with?”

“I want to ……” Pamela Mountbatten with a face of fondness, expressed the intention of wanting to ride a rocket.

Harold Wilson, the British Prime Minister he remembered, appeared in Australia with a pipe in his mouth, which seemed very significant in the international context at this time.

“Here you are, Minister.” Alan Wilson appeared at Perth airport and came over to greet the future Labor leader.

Forty year old Harold Wilson, in the labor list has already established a firm footing, this time as the minister responsible for the space business, can be said to be even further, among the top of the labor party, can be said to be just the right time to be spirited. Forty years old this age for politicians, can be said to be in the prime of life, everything is in a promising time.

“Alan, hard work.” Harold Wilson spoke with a smile on his face, “The Prime Minister attaches great importance to the space program, and the Blue Light Missile test program at the Wumaila launch site is very important.”

“I already know the minister’s purpose, let’s go back and talk again.” Alan Wilson made an invitation gesture, letting this cabinet minister get on the car, the Woomera launch site was an important British overseas asset.

And Alan Wilson also knew that one of the most important of the space launch centers was that it must be near the equator. Launching a geostationary orbit satellite launch site built near the Earth’s equator can play a multiplier effect, there are two main reasons.

One is that the flight speed of the satellite to be launched is formed by superimposing the speed of the launch vehicle and the rotational component of the Earth’s speed, and in the case of a certain speed of the launch vehicle, the lower the latitude of the launch site, the greater the Earth’s rotational speed, which in turn can make the orbital speed of the satellite to be launched greater.

If the satellite is launched from the equator to the east, the Earth’s rotational energy can be utilized to the maximum extent, which is essentially to increase the satellite’s flight speed by means of the Earth’s rotational force.

In addition, when a satellite in geostationary orbit is launched eastward from the equator or from a launching site close to the equator, the satellite’s flight orbit can be placed in or close to the same plane as the final orbit, which saves a great deal of energy needed for the satellite’s lateral maneuvering to the geostationary orbit position and greatly prolongs the satellite’s operational life.

From this point of view, Britain’s original choice of Australia to build a space launch center was a very wise decision.

This is the point where the Soviet Union was at a great disadvantage, and it can be said that the Soviet Union, which was at a high latitude, had to pay a lot of extra costs for the geography alone.

Before Harold Wilson came, he had already, in the name of the Overseas Assets Management Council, had the head of the Woomera launch site draw up a detailed future space program, which he then interfered with and modified in his current official capacity.

Thus the space program with the clearest logic in this day and age and impeccable on paper was officially launched. Including, but not limited to, launching satellites, manned spaceflight, and landing on the moon.

This is all the result of taking the space station out of consideration of the context of the times, otherwise the space program touched up by Allen Wilson. As long as leaked out, sold to the Americans can easily realize a few million.

I believe that even the Americans, now also on the specific steps of spaceflight is at a loss, do not know exactly how to implement.

And Alan Wilson’s plan can completely play the role of an outline, which is how much money can’t be bought.

“Honorable Minister, limited by secrecy, and considering the power of the Soviet KGB. This plan you can take back and give it directly to the Prime Minister.”

After Alan Wilson took out the plan, it was full of solemn exhortations. To say that it was to protect state secrets, this reason was a little bit, but the bigger consideration was to have Harold Wilson personally hand it over to Prime Minister Adderley. It would mitigate his own personal touch in the development of the space program.

Otherwise, his meddling and modifications to the space program might have been known to a wider audience.

Although the steps in this plan were all correct and could definitely withstand scrutiny. But Alan Wilson himself resume has no similar educational experience, could he say that after he came to the East, he studied orientalism to realize the night observation of the sky’s great skill?

“Of course, nowadays all countries pay great attention to this information, and it’s not too much to be careful.” Harold Wilson immediately took over the plan and looked at it, the plan was modified, but as the top boss, Alan Wilson of course, he also had to let the scientists take out the theoretical basis.

So although Harold Wilson felt shocked, mainly the last part of the landing on the moon. But also just sigh, the difficulty of the space program, and did not think much about it.

“The minister can add some of his own colors to this plan.” Alan Wilson smiled understandingly, “Now that the government attaches importance to the space program, as well as the citizens’ expectations for this matter, if the minister can leave a colorful mark in the space program, perhaps the minister’s name will appear in the future history books of the United Kingdom.”

“Oh? Of course!” Harold Wilson had only just taken office, and this visit to Australia was the first major mission of his ministerial career, and the first person he would face would be Alan Wilson, a colonial bureaucrat who had been working for ten years.

Only she did not recognize it now, once he agreed, this plan has nothing to do with Allen Wilson again. In the future, even if someone cleared the links, it would only come back to him.

The new cabinet minister does not know, this is the first time he is in the civil service guidance, and definitely not the first time, on the contrary, this is just a beginning.

With the help of Alan Wilson, this space program, which belonged to the minister, had a dual-use component. Britain, after all, is not the peak of its former self, and still values cost savings, and being able to allocate ninety million pounds is already quite sincere.

“Just this moon landing part? Very ambitious indeed.” Harold Wilson finally said with some lack of confidence.

“Things have to be taken one step at a time.” Alan Wilson said in his heart, he didn’t even take the part of landing on the moon seriously, it was better to leave such a high level of difficulty to the United States and the Soviet Union, placing more importance on the first two parts of launching satellites and manned spaceflight.

The United States and the Soviet Union in the space race in the investment is astronomical, with Britain’s national strength to fight to the end is unrealistic.

The cost of landing on the moon, in particular, is a bottomless pit, and there is a high probability that it will not be successful. It would be good to get the first two done.