Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Chapter 784: A Little Trouble

The video was shot and sent from that part of the spacecraft that was stuck in orbit, only a minute and fifty seconds long.

In that video, a semi-circular landing pod separated from the Golden Heart spacecraft, dragged a flaming light and fell towards Mars' thin atmosphere, eventually turning into a dot, disappearing at the edge of the Mars atmosphere...

As the Ark speculated, NASA posted relevant news on the official website as soon as the fire was successful, and posted a video clip of Golden Heart.

And the next thing is unexpected.

In just 10 minutes, this is less than two minutes of video, and clicks soar, eventually climbing to the top three of YouTube's hottest videos in real time.

After watching the video, there was silence in the room and no one spoke.

After a long time, Chen Yunhai coughed softly and broke the silent atmosphere, he said.

“We need to discuss countermeasures...”

“There's nothing to discuss, I told you from the start, it's enough to do what we have. ”

Close the notebook on the table, the ark looked at Yuan Huanmin, and after a moment of reflection, he continued to ask, “How long before the life compartment of the Moon Palace is ready? ”

Mr Yuan hesitated for a moment and said.

“It's ready and the test will take another week. ”

“Then the next launch is scheduled in two weeks!” As he said, the ark stuffed the notebook in his bag and stood up at the conference table, "all busy to go, adjourn! ”

……

The successful landing of the Golden Heart has earned the United States tremendous international prestige and has plunged the whole of North America into a sea of joy.

The video that NASA released on youtube and on the official website, the comment area has been brushed up by internet friends around the world.

Seemingly to exasperate the resentment of the last planting on the Moon Palace's core cabin heat dissipation system, The New York Times deliberately placed next to the news story a cartoon with star and stripe pattern boxing gloves and a winning gesture.

Even the Washington Post, which has always been well known, rarely used “a great step in human history” to describe the success of this firing plan.

In addition to the extensive coverage of the North American media, overseas media coverage paid the utmost attention to the matter.

This time, as always, BBC's assessment stands in the position of watching the play, painlessly indicating that NASA has taken the upper hand in the competition.

At present, the Ares plan seems to be much deeper than China's Lunar Palace program.

The abundant methane resources on Mars can be used as an energy source for liquid methane rocket engines, as opposed to the three helium resources that can be used in some unknown months.

Chemical propulsion technology has proven far from reaching bottlenecks, at least as evidenced by BFS rockets. And colonies on Mars, in the future, will be NASA's springboard for projecting spacecraft onto other planets.

The future of electric propulsion may be wider, but does a liquid methane rocket engine look good?

Just as the heat of Ares was rising, Space-X announced that it would open a business with video sites such as youtube to regularly release daily videos of Mars colonists online in free form.

In an interview with the media, Musk solemnly promised that the advertising proceeds from the video would be used entirely for space projects.

Meanwhile, the White House and NASA posted a message on the official website asking the American public for the names of Mars colonies and setting up a webcast to count their opinions.

The event generated considerable enthusiasm among North Americans, and even those who were not normally interested in space participated with interest in the call for names.

In less than a day, more than 30 million voters were cast.

After some screening, the White House finally announced “New Virginia” as the name of the first Mars colony, after removing a few names that were clearly mischievous.

Historically, this was where the British colonists began in North America.

It is undoubtedly quite commemorative to choose that name for the Mars colony today.

Immediately after the release of the name "New Virginia," NASA announced the next step of the Ares Plan.

Pending the continued export of migrants to Mars, the pioneers of immigration stationed on Mars will survey resources such as methane gas reserves and metal deposits in the vicinity of the colony and extend geological exploration activities to areas inaccessible to remotely piloted Mars vehicles in order to explore the state of Mars' polar solid carbon dioxide reserves, assess the feasibility of manually initiating greenhouse restoration of the Mars atmosphere and, most critically, explore groundwater.

At present, the balance of victory seems to be tilting towards the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.

And just as North America fell prey to the success of the Ares program, so did the Moon Orbit Construction Committee across the Pacific.

At the beginning of the original Space Station programme, there was a lot of controversy in the industry over whether to choose "Moon Palace” or “Heavenly Palace”, and now the breakthrough in the Ares programme seems to make the controversy louder.

However, for the sounds of these discourses, the Lunar Orbital Construction Commission's chief designer, the Ark, appears to be deafening.

Lunar Palace Lifestyle Module Launch Schedule as usual.

When the assembly of the living quarters is complete, the Lunar Palace numbers already listed in the functional, node and experimental cabins will serve as a complete lunar space station, floating in the "NRHO” orbit, where researchers can be stationed at the ground command centre.

At the same time, this is the last component of the Moon Palace Phase I project...

……

White House.

Office of the President.

The President, who had just returned from Congress, was sitting in his office chair reading the minutes of the meeting, and the expression on his face was spooky.

Just at the previous meeting, opposition parliamentarians had such a delightful look on their faces that even the steak at noon had fragranced.

Just a week ago, opposition members of parliament were still attacking him with funds for the space program to exceed its target, but few would now suspect that he was right.

The success of Ares is right!

The winner of the space race is right!

And it is the greatest right that is leading the American people to victory!

He could not help laughing when he signed his name on the document in his hand, recalling the previous senators who had euphemistically stated to him at the meeting that a little restraint should be exercised.

“Why don't these idiots get it? Although space has spent a lot of money, it has stimulated the economy, created jobs, and I don't know what else they are unhappy with...”

Roosevelt's dam has revitalized the American economy, and his rockets can do just as well.

Shaking his head, he threw aside the signed budget and picked up the next paper on the California Nuclear Fusion Plant project.

Yet just as he was about to read it carefully, there was a knock outside the door.

Dropped the file in his hand and he cleared his voice and said, "Come in.”

When Chief Carson appeared at the door, the President's face gave a brilliant smile.

“Chief Carson, nice to meet you. Have a seat. ”

Looking at the president with a bright smile on his face, Carson had a subtle expression on his face, or he didn't know how to say it.

“Mr. President, it is also a pleasure to meet you...”

Ten fingers crossed on the table, the president sitting in the office chair, said with pleasure, "Looks like you have something to say, and any good news to report to me? ”

“No… it may be the exact opposite of your expectations," swallowed a sip and Commissioner Carson sweated coldly in front of his forehead, painstakingly saying, "Our colonizer may have had a little trouble…”