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Thirty-five billion to forty-five billion, that was the assessment by the space agency of the research and development, as well as manufacturing costs, of the Forward Space Station.
For such a man-made creation that could serve both as an enormous space station and a spacecraft, the space agency was extremely interested. So were the higher-ups, who specially approved twenty billion yuan. Should there be joint operation of the Forward Space Station, half of the funds could be directly provided.
Of course, the twenty billion wasn't in strict cash but rather a portion in funds and another portion where the space agency would participate in the manufacturing of some modules according to their ideas.
Thinking of this, Lin Ju felt that the problem wasn't significant.
New Yuan was powerful in aerospace technology, but lacked high-end precision scientific research equipment; they had always had to buy it, and developing it themselves was very draining.
