"Two are too few. We need five people."
The members of the Aerospace Development Committee lowered their heads and discussed quietly, mainly to calculate the costs in their minds.
The UK's intentions had been completely revealed, which also conveyed some good news: they were willing to get their hands dirty with the hydrogen bombs, and the price they were asking for was exactly what the Aerospace Development Committee could easily offer.
Insiders knew their own affairs best. The current "Full Moon" landers were planned to reproduce three more units before being discontinued, and the next-generation lander was the unnamed XH-40, which had an extremely high round-trip capacity. If willing, it could carry two or three hundred people to land without a problem.
However, other supportive parts were still very expensive—the spacesuits, consumables for cleaning, living supplies, habitation space, and so forth, each one quite valuable, as every liter of air on the Moon was precious.
