North America, Florida.

On the central launch frame of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, a super rocket stood 32 stories tall.

The American flag, the NASA badge, the Space-X logo, and the BFR are printed on the side of the rocket. At the same time, several Wall Street sponsors sponsored the program to take care of some of the biggest golden masters.

A rocket of this magnitude took nearly a month for the staff to arrive at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base and assemble it. And it took another week to get ready for the final launch.

Now that the life support unit has been loaded with rockets, all the preparations are ready, and it is finally time for the expedition to begin. A pair of gaze from the audience, countless people are looking forward to this moment.

The ignition countdown starts soon.

With the end of the countdown of ten seconds, the rolling smoke instantly swept away.

Forty-two Raptor engines consumed liquid oxygen and methane in the fuel chamber at terrible speeds, providing 128 trillion cows of horrific take-off thrust to the entire spacecraft, propelling rockets over 100 metres away slowly from the launcher and launch platform and rushing towards the blue sky.

The engine roared like a giant beast.

This giant beast is called chemical propulsion.

Condensed with state-of-the-art liquid methane propulsion technology, the giant beast once again showed the world its strong arms...

Looking at the scene from a distance through the telescope, Musk's mouth rose, dropping the telescope in his hand and handing it to his assistant, looking at Director Carson, who was staring at the cigarette column in the distance, smiled and said.

“As I said, there's nothing to worry about, we have the best space technology research and development team in the world, and the most extensive launch experience, and you just have to wait for the Gestures to upload from the desert 60 million kilometers away. ”

“I hope it's the Gestapo,” put down the telescope on the beam of his nose, and Director Carson paused and said, "Where's the BFS ship? Are you ready? ”

If the life support unit unfolds smoothly on the surface of Mars, the three chosen lucky ones will embark in June and embark on the greatest expedition in human history.

And the BFS spacecraft, the supporting facility for the BFR superrocket, will play an equally important role throughout Ares, which is to bring astronauts safely to Mars.

Musk: “We don't use BFS ships. ”

Director Carson looked at Musk and said, "But what you said in PPT is...”

Musk smiled and said, "That thing is a 100-person ship, and by the time we use it, it's the last stage of Ares. Just send three astronauts up and we'll use a smaller, more stable and reliable vehicle, guess what it's called? ”

Director Carson: "… what's his name? ”

“Golden Heart! ”

Director Carson hesitated to react to this old infarct.

“Galactic roaming guides? ”

If he remembers the book correctly, it's probably called. It's just that the golden heart in the novel uses not some kind of chemical propulsion, but “infinite nonprobability-driven”, “theoretically”, that can instantly reach any corner of the universe.

Musk's face revealed a smile.

“Yes, Glass Adams' sci-fi masterpiece, I intend to make it the first manned spaceship to fly to Mars! ”

Director Carson shook his head with a smile.

“… I think it would be more appropriate to take a more historic name. ”

Musk didn't think, “History is written by people, and when we succeed, whether it's history or something else. ”

A deafening cheer broke out not far from where they were speaking.

Standing there are people from all walks of life invited by NASA, representatives of civil society and journalists from major media companies. Everyone's face is not excited at this moment.

In this cheer, the BFR rocket carrying the life support unit rushed towards Mars, more than 60 million kilometres away. If it wasn't an accident, a month would be enough for him to land on Mars.

Standing at the set location, the journalists were excited to finish filming the rocket take-off while swinging the camera and exiting the launch center.

They can't wait to go back to their work computers and start editing tomorrow's headlines.

Wait until after today.

The world will be shaken by the achievements of the United States…

……

The news of the successful launch of the BFR rocket was featured without suspense in the headlines of the next day's news.

According to information reported by NASA, the Golden Heart with its life-support unit has succeeded in accelerating to the second universe and is leaving the Earth Moon system for the New World.

Once again, the United States has shown the world its ambition and strength in space, while relevant stories have been screened in major newspapers, television news and talk shows.

As one of the protagonists in the Ares plan, Space-X's share price began to rise in an irresistible fashion after a brief shock.

According to a financial practitioner working on Wall Street, the launch not only generated billions of dollars in direct revenue for Space-X, but also billions and tens of billions of dollars in market value growth for U.S. equities.

Given the expansion of the electric car market with the innovations in lithium-sulfur batteries and controllable fusion technologies, it may not be long before Musk's name reaches the top 10 of the global billionaire list.

At the same time, with the successful launch of the BFR rocket, domestic public opinion has become increasingly critical of the Moon orbit space station.

Many even jumped out and sang that the tens of billions of dollars worth of work had been doomed to failure from the outset and had succeeded, with little use other than glory.

Those voices were not heeded, and they didn't even notice what those people had said. After returning from Shanghai, the ark had barely been idle for a day.

Construction of the most central difficulty in the construction of the station in the lunar orbit and the delivery of completed space station components from the surface to the lunar orbit.

At present, there is nothing better to do than starry sky science and technology.

So it is no exaggeration to say that he alone is the winner of this race.

In the conference room of the Institute of Space Technology of the Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies, a conference on the Moon orbit project is under way.

“… If we are to complete the construction of the Moon Orbit Space Station, we need to deliver at least 500 tons of heavy goods to the Moon Orbit," look at the conceptual diagram on the screen, the ark lightly lights the desktop with a ballpoint pen, "and this is only the most basic phase of the project, followed by an order of at least 2,000 tons awaiting us, and we must maximize our power. ”

The project manager of the Moon orbit space station settles the launch costs of star science and technology in kilograms, which are settled semi-annually. Since it is a central project, there is no problem with arrears in construction funds common to local infrastructure projects. It is also quite convenient to find a bank to apply for loans.

Although the project has not yet begun, the Ark has applied for a loan of 50 billion yuan from four major banks, one for the construction of the new Xiangrui Sky Shuttle and the other for the development of new means of space transport.

Speaking of which, the ark paused for a moment and continued.

“I believe that we can study a spacecraft specifically designed to be used between the Earth's Moon transfer orbit and the geosynchronous orbit. ”

The loud discussion was opened in the conference room.

The idea of constructing a spacecraft dedicated to the movement of the Moon to and from Earth orbit and to geosynchronous orbit was so avant-garde that many experts who had been in the field for decades were not sure.

Hou Guang frowned, thinking for a moment, and said: "Do you mean… to complete the transport from surface to synchronous orbit with the Xiangrui and then transfer the space capsule that needs to be transported to a specialized spacecraft to complete the transport from near-Earth orbit to lunar orbit through a specialized spacecraft? ”

The ark nodded down: "Yes. ”

"It is theoretically feasible, except that there may be considerable technical risks during the cargo transfer phase," Hou Guang said. ”

The Ark laughed and continued: "Space itself is a risky thing, and every change of orbit is an adventure. Appropriate adventures are worth it, and if we can do so, we can not only upgrade the capacity of the Earth's Moon Transfer Orbit to a level, but also outsource the launch from surface to synchronous orbit to other suitably qualified space companies to share our costs. ”

After listening to the idea of the ark, Hou Guang fell into silence and spoke after a while.

“I'll go back to the study and give you a detailed report by tomorrow night. ”

Ark Zheng focused on the bottom.

“Well, it's up to you. ”

Such a thing was not in itself a simple decision to be made at the conference; it was just a hole in the brain, a move in the mouth, and the experts responsible for specific issues might have to break their legs.

However, Hou Guang did not directly deny his idea, even stating that it was theoretically feasible. The problem should not be very great, at least the trade-off between the pros and cons made the big bull in space a little distracted.

The meeting lasted until noon.

After the meeting, the ark went to the cafeteria of the Jinling Institute of Higher Studies and was about to finish a barbecue meal and sit in a corner to eat. A phone call was made to his phone.

After sweeping the screen, he saw that Director Li had called, and Ark pressed the on button, putting the phone to his ear, and didn't want to open it.

“Hello? ”

Director Li on the other side of the phone didn't have a chill, he spoke in a serious tone and just said one word.

“Americans' BFR rockets fired! ”