Chapter 57 507_1

There were some minor episodes during his visit to Beijing as well, with many organizations and individuals extending invitations to Lin Ju, but he declined them all, citing a busy company schedule.

New Yuan Aeronautics was certainly busy, and although it had many projects underway, its workforce of less than four hundred people meant its research and development capabilities were limited, with the main focus on the New Yuan-2 rocket and the H1 spacecraft.

After all, these were systemic missions, and failure to complete them would have grave consequences.

The Astronaut Scientific Research Training Center, located in the Haidian District of the Capital, was formerly known as Establishment 507.

Since the initiation of the manned space flight program in '92 up to now, a total of ten astronauts had been to space, and the entire astronaut team was still less than thirty people.