Chapter 892 – Rolled Up
“Virtuous competition!” Foltseva watched Khrushchev’s speech on TV and was thinking this when a knock came from the door of her apartment room, so she immediately got up and went to open the door.
A boy with a red scarf appeared in front of her and rushed at Foltseva in a neutral voice, “Mother.”
“School’s over?” Foltseva’s face carried a hint of doting, then looked at the pair behind her son and said, “Please come in, I’ve only just come back from Poland, and it’s such a bother to help pick up the children.”
“No, Alexeev is very obedient.” The woman who spoke had a gentle tone, but was tall, and unlike a tall figure, was extremely delicate in her face, no less than any woman, her hair was blonde and fell over her shoulders.
“Come in and sit.” Foltseva invited the pair in, asking as she tidied up, “I haven’t seen you for a long time, and Alexeev is still so attached to you, but I say, Ekaterina, aren’t you going to have a child.”
The two, obviously husband and wife, looked at each other and spoke easily at the same time, “There’s no rush, everything is prioritized with work as a priority option.”
“Well, I’m confused about Lubyanka.” Foltseva sat on the sofa with her son and chatted with her friend.
Khrushchev was just finishing his speech at this point, and naturally the conversation centered around the most current space project.
“The ICBM project is being tested in Poland, obviously smoothing out the situation in Poland and Hungary, but of course I can’t deny that in the face of these comrades who are caught up in the misconceptions for a while, it’s also necessary to let them leave their jobs for a while to calm down. It’s best for the Ministry of Defense to stay out of this kind of thing and leave it to us purge workers.”
When talking about Poland and Hungary, the man was glowing, with a connoisseur’s tone in his mouth.
“I’ll be like Uncle Yura from now on.” Foltseva’s son, who was obviously already quite familiar with this pair of uncles and aunts, spoke in a tone that was not at all unfamiliar.
“The red scarf on your chest is even more colorful.” Ekaterina reached out and grabbed the child’s red scarf, smilingly encouraging.
“Secretary Foltseva, Alekseyev is ten years old, I believe.” The man scrutinized the half-grown child in front of him with deep eyes and turned the conversation, “Alexeyev, you will first have to make it to the head of the General Directorate within thirty years before you can do so. During this time you will also have to have experience abroad, work in some country’s embassy for a while, and have nothing to consider learning more than one foreign language, so that you may be able to talk like this when the time comes.”
With that said the man took a short knife with a patterned blade out of his tunic and handed it to Foltseva’s son, “This Damascus steel blade is for you, remember to use it well.”
“Then, Secretary Foltseva, we will leave you.” After sitting for a while, the two got up and excused themselves from Foltseva’s apartment.
“Why did you even give away the fruit knife you’ve been using for so long?” The woman inclined her head to question her husband.
The man held out another Damascus steel knife as if by magic and said gently, “A replica. A mighty tree needs to grow from a sapling, and an ear of wheat needs to be carefully cared for before it reaches the point where it can be of value.”
“Indeed, it’s too much of a bully if we’re here.” The woman knew her partner’s mind well, “Find an opportunity to leave?”
“This time Foltseva is proposing an ICBM test in Poland, no surprise, she’s getting a promotion.” The man strolled through the streets of Moscow with his arm around his wife’s shoulders, “Maybe in thirty years her son really will be Director General.”
“Don’t you ever use spiritual reinforcement on anyone else.” As soon as the woman heard this she immediately reacted that her revolutionary partner had moved, and Foltseva’s son must have been keeping today’s words in his mind as a dream to be realized.
“Got it, got it, dear, it’s just a good thing to make him strong in his faith and tougher on a spiritual level.”
Facing his wife’s accusation, the man was filled with helplessness, he didn’t want to be a bully, but wouldn’t it be okay to raise an aspiring young man?
“But the thought of leaving, there is still some reluctance towards Furtseva, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen her.” The woman was a bit long-winded, but she also knew that the separation was sooner or later, but she was still a bit sentimental when she saw the time of school dismissal, a student with a red scarf.
“It’s still a little cool for October.” The man took off the gray military coat he was wearing and draped it over his wife.
The effect of Khrushchev’s speech was obvious; to say something like that in his position, while referring to healthy competition, was a provocative move in Washington’s eyes to put the United States ahead.
The United States of America in 1956, is in a thriving time, every citizen of the United States of America, have a great pride in their own country, the citizens of the Peak City is full of hope for the country, so see Khrushchev’s provocation, it becomes more and more intolerable.
At this moment, Alan Wilson accompanied the minister and landed at the airfield built next to the Woomera launch site. It was still some distance from the interior of the Woomera launch site, but fortunately the launch site had sent a special car to receive them.
Allen Wilson had already been here once before and had no curiosity about the Woomera launch site, but Harold Wilson was different, he was still seeing what the launch center looked like for the first time, and was full of curiosity about this launch site that the UK had invested a huge amount of money in building in 1947.
“Alan, have you been here before?” Harold Wilson immediately sensed that the colonial commissioner looked flat.
“Although the Woomera launch site does not seem to be related to my work, as an important overseas asset, I still have to know something about it. Built out of a facility that can put five thousand people to work. Now with the backing of the current government, it should allow the UK to take its place amongst the countries developing spaceflight around the world.”
The theory related to spaceflight is much easier than the practice, and even the UK has a program for it, who let’s just say that the discussion and whatnot really doesn’t consume much money compared to the practice.
But even then, Allen Wilson just described it as taking a place. Not to mention the Soviet Union as the first to practice the space industry, how much manpower and resources used.
But the U.S. Apollo program spent money, he is aware of, in the peak of the project, the participation of twenty thousand companies, more than two hundred universities and more than eighty scientific research institutions, a total of more than three hundred thousand people, invested twenty-four billion U.S. dollars, that is the era of the gold standard.
How can the present Britain compare with this manpower and material resources? With this kind of national support, even if the Soviet Union’s progress is much faster now, it is still not known who the deer is, but it is certain that Britain is definitely unable to catch up.
Most of Britain’s early Cold War programs, which covered a wide range of areas, came to nothing because of a lack of money.
Nowadays Britain can certainly invest, much better than the original historical Britain, but it can’t make the decision to invest so much. It could be more than ten years of Britain’s military spending.
The only thing Allen Wilson is sure of now is that if the space scramble goes white hot right away, Eisenhower may not wait for Kennedy to come to power before he does a national mobilization to fight the Soviet Union on the moon landing program. Kennedy will probably have one less accomplishment to show for it.
It’s up to the Soviets, when they get the first Sputnik in the air, to galvanize America’s fighting spirit.
Upon entering the Woomera launch site, Harold Wilson expressed the current administration’s support and encouragement of the space industry, “The government and individuals, as well as state-owned enterprises, have taken out a total of one point three billion pounds as support for research in the field of rocketry. There will be an influx of talent from numerous universities, and hundreds of companies offering help in the future.”
“Whether Great Britain can gain an advantage in this most pioneering of current fields depends on the efforts of the researchers.”
In the conference center of the Woomera launch site, Harold Wilson instilled some chicken soup and reported encouragement to the British researchers at the launch site, but unfortunately he didn’t know that similar words had been finished by the colonial commissioner who had made a trip earlier.
Behind the loud applause was the one-point-three billion pounds grant that Harold Wilson had spoken of, ninety million pounds belonging to the government grant, thirty million pounds belonging to the funds of the Malayan colonies, including the Malayan colonies, and ten million pounds belonging to the private financial support, including the Mountbatten Group.
One point three hundred million pounds and the United States tens of billions of inputs can not be compared, but this figure has been the Australian military sales and French and Indian military sales combined order figures, enough to build four heavy aircraft carriers in the United Kingdom, Airdrie Cabinet can not be said not to support.
While Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union were each mobilizing to go head-to-head in the rocket field, in the French capital, Paris, the President of the French Council of Ministers, Guy Moller, Secretary of the Socialist Party, formally announced the launch of the French space program after successive congressional discussions, and the Congress passed the construction of a space center in Algeria.
One hundred and thirty large French national enterprises joined the ranks of rocket development and manufacturing, the French space program was officially launched to join the space competition.
By now, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France had all announced their own space programs, with the United States and the Soviet Union independently pursuing their space programs, and the United Kingdom and Australia embracing a joint space program, with technology to be shared after success. France, on the other hand, has established its space center on Algerian territory.
“It should be best to establish the space center in French Guiana.” Learning of the French moves, Alan Wilson couldn’t help but shake his head; the location in Algeria was only a limited bit stronger than the location of the Soviet Union’s Baikonur Cosmodrome.
But he is not the French, no obligation to remind, Britain in the field of space is not qualified to be the French teacher, or Australia allocated twenty million Australian dollars to support, more delightful.
So far, two emerging post-war powers and two old colonial empires had entered the scene. The advantage on the British side is that the steps of the detailed space program that Harold Wilson is about to bring back to London are very clear, as for the other advantages, there is really no ……