After dinner, Shen Bing enjoyed a rare moment of leisure, sitting in the garden and chatting with Yun Xue and Yuan Wei.
The two women were full of questions after taking the Aperture-Opening Pills. Their thinking abilities were nothing like they had been before. A little thought was enough to tell them that such miraculous little pills were probably beyond humanity's current research capabilities. Even Shen Bing would likely have struggled to develop a drug that boosted intelligence so dramatically.
Still, they did not pry into where the little pills had come from. That, too, showed their intelligence.
"Shen Bing, can the big planes our company makes fly beyond Earth?" Yun Xue asked dreamily, gazing up at the stars.
Shen Bing smiled. "In theory, yes. But our planes currently aren't designed for vacuum conditions or weightlessness. Even if they could leave Earth, they wouldn't be much use."
There was nothing wrong with his explanation. Although people said that escaping Earth's gravity required reaching first cosmic velocity, that speed referred to the initial velocity. With a continuous supply of thrust, an aircraft could escape Earth's gravity even without reaching first cosmic velocity.
Yun Xue was not disappointed in the slightest. Full of anticipation, she asked, "The United States is going back to the moon next month. When will our company build a spaceship for a moon landing?"
Shen Bing smiled and said, "Actually, we already have plans for that, and the spaceship is already under construction."
"Really?" Yun Xue and Yuan Wei both exclaimed. The news was utterly astonishing to them.
Shen Bing explained, "Our company never actually had a heavy transport plane project to begin with. The Wind God Type 1 Heavy Transport Plane was simply built using some peripheral technologies developed during the spaceship's construction."
It was easy to