In a factory building at the former site of the Prea Vista Hughes Aircraft Company in the southern suburb of Los Angeles.

Monday, March 4.

Simon still arrived on time at 8 o'clock in the morning.

24 hours passed, in this factory building, which is 70 meters long and 30 meters wide, the size of a large studio in the studio, there was also a clear smell of sweat in the air dispersed with the smell of welding arcs, indicating that someone has experienced a long and uninterrupted work here.

The staff who were not responsible for referees or assistance, there were only 43 people left yesterday's 50 interviewers, totaling nine groups. As Simon had expected, half of the teams were continuing to work. However, what satisfied Simon was that the team that had completed his project had no rest and was helping others.

Simon ignored why the other seven people left, and personally announced the end of the interview time, and directly asked the NASA testing team that accompanied him to start inspecting the rocket accessories made by the interviewers. The aerospace field lasted for half a century, and NASA has a complete standard protocol for various software and hardware equipment related to the aerospace industry.

After a night, the extremely tired interviewers were taken to an apartment next to wash up. In the future, Elite's beautiful models would also bring breakfast.

Simon was not idle. He sat next to a workbench and personally read the detailed records of each interviewer's interviewer's past 24 hours. The referees were professionals in the field of NASA's rocket testing. Although Simon did not intend to hire these people, it was still more than enough to temporarily recruit the position of an interviewer.

This is only the third round of interviews and the final result will not be confirmed.

Simon also did not intend to decide whether to hire the other party based on whether each group team completed his or her tasks. He was more inclined to judge whether the parties met their requirements based on the records of these interviewers.

Half an hour later, the interviewees returned from the apartment next door one after another. The inspection of the NASA team continued. There were rows of seats on the open space near the entrance of the factory. More than a dozen tall and beautiful girls were placing breakfast. When they saw everyone returning, several of them invited everyone to sit down appropriately.

The fourth time.

From yesterday to now, there have been four waves of beautiful girls delivering food. One by one, both in appearance and figure, has made most of the interviewees who are still bachelors soar. Some of the more relaxed guys have even come forward to chat with them, and even got the contact information. Everyone knows that this is a professional model hired by Simon Westlot to deliver food to them.

There are also various foods for this day and night, which actually cover foods from various countries such as Yi, Fa, Zhong, and Mo. Even though most of them have a good income, they are usually not easy to eat.

Food and beauty.

Tacky!

This is the first reaction of some interviewers who understand Simon Westero's intention to do so.

However, if possible, please keep going!

Elon Musk returned with three other team members who got together yesterday and changed into a new set of clothes provided here. Even though there was no rest for 24 hours, the few people were still in high spirits at this time, especially when they saw a group of beautiful girls appearing, they were even more energetic.

After a little look, the girls in this wave of girls have changed again, but they still have long legs, thin waist and beautiful face.

If you can marry someone, you will definitely not lose.

Of course, everyone is more concerned about whether they can get this job, knowing the worldly ways, and being able to feel Simon Westeros’s importance to SpaceX from the details yesterday to the present. In the past 24 hours, Musk and others discovered something while discussing with the small team while busy.

The Internet industry promoted by Simon Westeros is the core of three companies, Cisco, American Online and Igritte. The three companies cover three major areas: Internet equipment providers, Internet service providers and Internet content providers, forming a completed industrial chain.

Now, the total market value of these three companies is close to US$900 billion.

This is an obvious reference.

Let’s look at this time, SpaceX, SolarCity, and FusionTimes, three companies, one is aviation, one is photovoltaics, and the other is nuclear fusion. Even if the relationship between Cisco, American Online, and Egret is not as close as that between the three companies, it also involves a complete industrial chain for humans to move into space.

SpaceX provides aerospace technology to send humans out of the earth.

SolarCity provides photovoltaic technology that can be widely used in space.

The controlled nuclear fusion technology provided by FusionTimes is the energy that humans want to move towards the universe. Otherwise, relying on the current mainstream fossil energy will not be able to support human expansion in the solar system or even on a larger scale.

Half a century ago, with the continuous breakthroughs in the aerospace field, many people began to fantasize about humans entering the space age, but unfortunately this day has never arrived.

Now, according to Simon Westero's plan, all this may really be realized.

Nine o'clock.

Everyone had returned and quickly finished breakfast. Simon walked over from the work area at this time, holding a thing that looked like a hydraulic jack to ordinary people. However, these people at the scene knew that Simon was an aviation actuator, which was an important component commonly used in the aviation field to achieve balance or steering of aircraft, rockets and other spacecraft through hydraulic transmission.

Elon Musk and his team were sitting together and couldn't help looking at each other and their eyes lit up.

The parts Simon Westeros brought at this time were the works of four of their group. Speaking of which, Musk had five people at first, and one of them failed to stick to it yesterday. He thought that this job was a waste of time, so he took the initiative to withdraw before noon yesterday.

Elon Musk still remembers that guy introduced himself as a master's degree in quantum physics and mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He was a very proud guy. He was a little sorry for the person's withdrawal. Otherwise, their group would be able to complete their work within 12 hours and get extra points by helping others.

After the other party withdrew, it took a group of four people 21 hours to complete the actuator in Simon's hand.

In order to process the drive shaft of the actuator, the four of them even learned how to use a precision lathe in these 21 hours. This learning ability beyond ordinary people made the lathe technician who was responsible for assisting in ensuring safety a little stunned.

The key is that the accessories processed by the four people after learning temporarily meet the requirements.

Simon came to the center of the dining table, put down the actuator in his hand, signaling everyone not to get up, and said with a smile: "Although some of you have not been able to complete your work, I have seen it, and everyone who still stayed has done their best. What I want to say is that if you get this job, this will be your future working status."

Simon finished speaking, and a tall brown-haired young man across the dining table raised his hand slightly, got Simon's gesture, and smiled and pointed at the food on the dining table and the models who were still in the nearby rest area: "Mr. Westeros, is this the same?"

Everyone laughed.

Simon didn't mind this kind of cross-cutting, and smiled, saying, "The girls over there just came to help everyone improve their spirits. If you still want to have a follow-up, you have to make an appointment with them yourself. However, in terms of food, although it does not meet the standards of the past four meals, because you are all the elites I selected, the catering standards after joining the company in the future will definitely be much better than those in your original company. In addition, this is Los Angeles, my territory. As long as you are interested, you will have many opportunities to attend various celebrity parties in the future."

When everyone heard this, they made a buzz with satisfaction, and the models waiting nearby looked over curiously.

Simon signaled everyone to be quiet, patted the actuator in front of him, and said, "I don't need to introduce what this is. Everyone knows more than me. What I want to ask is, does anyone know what the industry quotes are if they want to buy such a professional actuator?"

Simon's question came out, and the young man who was just joking said immediately: "I know this, about $100,000."

Simon nodded slightly, changed his tone and said, "So, what do you think the cost of this equipment in my hand is about?"

Everyone was a little confused.

As the party involved, Elon Musk had already understood Simon's intention to bring this equipment, and did not specifically praise them, but he was not disappointed, and said at this time: "Mr. Westeros..."

Simon interrupted slightly: "Everyone just call me Simon."

Elon Musk paused slightly and changed his name: "Simon, this device was made by my team. I don't know the quotes for various sensors and other spare parts. However, in my opinion, the cost of this device should not exceed $10,000."

"That's right, in fact, without considering the artificial factors that everyone invested, all the accessories on this device are worth only US$3,900, while the NASA-certified professional manufacturer has a quotation of US$120,000," Simon said, looking at everyone again and continued: "Just just now, NASA's testing team has tested this device. With a score of 10 points, they gave 9.5 points, which basically meets the aviation usage standards. So, US$120,000 and US$3,900, what do you think?"

When everyone heard this, they didn't know how to express it for a moment.

Simon waited for a moment, but no one responded, and said: "I said yesterday that SpaceX is not a big toy invested in by a super rich man on a whim, but a company that really wants to change the aerospace field and promote the future of mankind. Therefore, I need you to truly bring texture changes to the aerospace industry, not only to go further on the technology based on predecessors, but also to have costs."

"Traditional aerospace equipment manufacturers, such as Boeing, need 1,200 suppliers to provide components to build a rocket, because each supplier needs to ensure its own profit, which greatly pushes up the costs of the aerospace industry. Moreover, because the technology is too dispersed, it has largely hindered the progress and innovation of the industry. These are what SpaceX needs to abandon. My operating idea for SpaceX is to maximize the self-design and production of all space equipment components, including the core rocket engine. The ultimate goal is to achieve 100% self-produced."

"Maybe some of you already think this is a bit crazy. How could a company do all the work in the aerospace field by itself?"

"But, from yesterday to now, you have actually proved that you have this ability. The next step is to go further. If you still think this is impossible, then you can quit now. If you want to try this challenge, the last interview, three days, write a detailed self-report to me. It is not those stereotyped introductions. I want you to describe in detail what aspects of your work in SpaceX's first workflow to personally design and manufacture a launch vehicle."

"OK, that's all here today."

After Simon finished speaking, he once again took a group of followers away with him.

Because it was Monday and the schedule was tight, Simon arrived in a helicopter. After that, the Black Hawk helicopter took off from Prea Vista, crossed the Marienander Harbor, which was densely packed with private cruise ships, and flew straight to the Malibu Daenerys Cinema on the other side of the Los Angeles Bay.

The morning's work is a variety of trivialities in the Westeros system.

In the afternoon, according to the schedule, we will return to the recent plans.

Simon set off for San Francisco at 1:00 pm and arrived in Palo Alto an hour later, in an ordinary office building near Stanford University. There is a startup company here that has been bought in advance by Westeros. The company is also considered a new technology field, mainly developing a new technology, 3D printing.

It is said to be a new technology, but the concept of 3D printing has sprouted with the emergence of camera technology as early as the end of the 19th century. It has developed to the 1980s. This technology has been quite mature, but it has not developed much because it has always lacked practical application directions.

In Simon's memory, a 3D printing boom emerged in China many years later. From the current perspective, it should be more of an industrial hype for obtaining venture capital, and later it gradually became quiet. Because 3D printing is difficult to achieve large-scale industrial production, we can only play with the concept. If it is really used to produce cars or shoes, the cost is too high and it is not cost-effective at all.

However, Simon remembers that 3D printing is truly suitable or perfect for a direction in the aerospace field.

3D printing sounds very high-end, but in fact, to a more popular way, it is still a model production technology, but 3D wins are indeed more high-end, and can create complex models that cannot be completed by traditional industrial mold making techniques.

The most typical example in memory is the rocket engine.

Traditional manufacturing techniques are adopted, because many accessories cannot be formed at one time and can only be made in a scattered manner for splicing and assembly, which results in a rocket engine having more than 1,000 parts and a long manufacturing cycle. Usually, a rocket engine takes six months to complete.

In comparison, rocket engines made using 3D printing technology can be formed at one time, and the parts can be directly reduced from more than 1,000 to less than 100. In the aerospace field, rocket launches costing tens of millions of dollars often fail due to one screw. The reason is that there are too many parts, which increases the uncertainty of rocket launches.

The number of parts has been reduced to one-tenth of the original, and you can imagine how much it will promote the success rate of rocket launches.

In addition, 3D printing technology can greatly shorten the construction cycle of rocket engines. The original half-year manufacturing process, even if the early modeling and later testing are included, it only takes one month.

The reduction in parts, the stability increases significantly, and the construction cycle is greatly shortened, which will eventually be reflected in the construction cost of a rocket.

In Simon's vision, if the plan is extended to the entire colonial space cycle, rockets will definitely be a spacecraft that needs to be eliminated. Even if the US space shuttle program has suffered various setbacks and is on the verge of giving up, Simon also believes that this is the real right direction and will continue to advance in this direction in the future.

Now, in the short term, what Simon has to do is to significantly reduce the cost of rocket manufacturing while carrying out technological changes, so as to compete with established aerospace manufacturers for commercial orders and realize SpaceX's own sustainable business model.

SpaceX once proved that technological change and cost reduction are not contradictory.

As Simon gained deeper understanding of the industry, he firmly believed in this.

Just talking about 3D printing, as long as this technology is practically applied, it is difficult to measure the reduction of spacecraft manufacturing costs. At the same time, 3D printing itself is also a major technological progress for the entire aerospace industry.

Just like that human laziness drives technological progress.

The pursuit of low-cost will also prompt a company to adopt more advanced technology.

The first phase of SpaceX is just the development of a low-cost launch vehicle, which seems not to be a progress, but in this process, Simon plans to use various new technologies that have emerged in human society in the past 30 years as much as possible based on his predecessors. This will actually bring about an advancement in many fields such as cutting-edge materials, mechanical engineering, electronic technology, etc.

On the other hand, the parallel progress of SpaceX, SolarCity, and FusionTimes will bring a comprehensive technological leap, because these three companies have basically covered all aspects of the cutting-edge technology field of mankind at this stage.
Chapter completed!