This star is going to the moon

Chapter 391 "Make Federal Manufacturing Great Again, Make Manufacturing Return!"

"Captain Chen Quan, what are you holding? Is it a mini tablet?"

Chen Quan: "No, this is a new folding phone that Huayao will release next year. When folded, it is a regular phone, but when unfolded, it has a large screen that can display more content."

"Oh my God, is it really that amazing?"

"Have mobile phones developed to this point? Can I take a look?"

Chen Quan: "Passengers, please don't rush. Let's take a group photo first. Huayao Mobile has prepared a gift for each passenger, which includes this latest foldable phone."

"Wow, that's great..."

When BlueStar Space developed its commercial space tourism plan, it included the idea of ​​taking photos with Earth, so the space shuttle has modules on its cabin walls to hold mobile phones or cameras.

Chen Quan fixed the phone in place, allowing it to take a picture using the rear camera in unfolded mode, so that everyone could view the preview on the rectangular phone screen.

He asked everyone to gather around a porthole, and after making sure everyone was in the frame, he said, "Okay, everyone just needs to smile and the photo will be taken automatically."

"Come on, one, two, three..."

"Crack!"

Taking a group photo is not easy; Chen Quan flew back and forth several times before finally getting a photo that satisfied everyone.

After taking the group photo, he took out five space travel gifts that Huayao had prepared in advance from the empty space in the food cabinet.

It's the same second-generation Huayao folding screen phone that Lu Yun and An Fangfei use, which won't be released until next year.

Compared to the first generation of outward-folding phones with only one screen, the second generation became an inward-folding phone with two screens, one large and one small.

Foreigners were fascinated by such a unique and exquisite phone, but Yang Xu, who knew about foldable screen phones, was quite surprised.

I never expected to receive such a gift while visiting space.

Not bad.

A Chinese American: "Wow, amazing!"

The owner of a smart robotic arm company from Laos said, "This phone is so cool! It's simply a technological marvel!"

Bharat High Caste female astronomer: "You can see twice as many star charts with this phone as with a regular phone!"

The white aristocratic descendant who was introducing Ying to finance said, "Haha, this phone is so useful for checking stock information. I don't need to carry my tablet with me anymore."

Yang Xu: "This...this phone is awesome!"

Yes, this is the commercial sponsorship of BlueStar Space's all-commercial space journey.

People who can afford to spend 1000 million RMB to travel to space in a space shuttle are all wealthy, so the advertisements for them cannot be the same as those for ordinary commercial airliners.

Advertising printed on small tables, seat covers, screens, luggage compartments, and magazines is all too cheap.

Huayao didn't put anything like that inside the space shuttle's cabin, and there wasn't even any advertising slogan; they just gave away gifts.

The wealthy who can afford a 10 million yuan space tourism ticket are not short of a 10,000 yuan or so to buy a foldable screen phone. Huayao just wants them, especially the foreign wealthy, to know that there is such a powerful technology company in the world.

Maybe we can get a few partners.

Moreover, it's not necessarily a mobile phone partnership. It's important to understand that Huayao's core competency is communications; it's a leading global provider of information and communication technology solutions. Unlike those luxury goods retailers who aim to attract wealthy individuals and further inflate the price of their products, Huayao isn't simply a company that sells luxury goods.

Of course, in the foreseeable future, luxury goods companies will definitely seek cooperation with Bluestar Aerospace.

After all, a wealthy person who can afford to spend 1000 million RMB on a space tourism ticket is exactly the target customer of luxury goods.

Now, passengers who received foldable screen phones as gifts are taking selfies in the cabin of the space shuttle.

One moment it's taking photos of itself with the cabin and the Earth, the next it's taking photos with other people.

Generally, the rear camera of a mobile phone is higher resolution than the front camera. However, the image quality of the front camera is not high enough, and the rear camera cannot show the image in real time, which is very inconvenient.

Foldable screen phones solve this problem, allowing users to view the live feed through an unfolded "small screen" when using the rear camera.

These scenes were broadcast live, prompting viewers in the live stream to exclaim how brilliant it was.

Many people abroad also paid close attention to this historic maiden flight, and watched the live broadcast through various means, thus witnessing this moment.

What kind of phone is that? It wasn't just bent or damaged, it was actually folded over?

[This phone is strange; its screen is surprisingly large when unfolded.]

[Don't you know about foldable phones? Huawei and Samsung have both released them; they're currently the newest and most unique form of smartphone.]

[A generous gift of crab, is that really how it is? I thought Huayao's mobile phones had gone bankrupt after the sanctions.]

[That's impossible. China possesses very strong technological and industrial capabilities, ensuring the production of mobile phones is not a problem. At most, the chips used might be of slightly lower quality.]

Why is there no news about Apple's foldable phone? Since Samsung and Huawei have already started developing foldable screen phones, isn't Apple following suit?

[I have inside information that Apple's foldable screen phone will be unveiled next year. As the world's most advanced mobile phone company, its foldable screen phone will be even more impressive!]

Indeed, my cousin works at Apple, and he told me that the company is developing a groundbreaking new device, much like the difference between a space shuttle and a manned spacecraft.

【I'm really looking forward to it! I'm a huge Apple fan...】

The impact of humanity's first fully commercial space trip was enormous. When they returned to the spaceport after their five-hour journey, it was already afternoon in China, which corresponds to 2 or 3 a.m. in the United States. However, many American netizens were still paying attention at that time.

Of course, there are also many "competitors" of Bluestar Aerospace.

Seeing the space shuttle land smoothly on the runway of the space airport, they couldn't help but marvel at how times have changed.

If the management team considers things more comprehensively, then the technical staff's considerations are relatively simple.

"Times have changed, and the benefits of technological leadership are beginning to shift to the other side of the ocean."

"Yes, even if we built the same space shuttle, it wouldn't be as cheap as $150 million per person."

"The advantages of China and Laos in the entire industrial chain are too great, while our manufacturing industry has shrunk severely."

"Guys, we need to get moving! We need to sign a petition and get the federal government to launch a manufacturing reshoring program!"

"Yes, we want to make federal manufacturing great again, and bring manufacturing back!"

"This must be Trump's slogan. In just over a month, Biden will be in power. Will he pay attention to manufacturing?"

(End of this chapter)