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Mars has once again entered the public's field of vision.

Since the launch of three Mars probes last year and the Mars window has passed, Mars has "disappeared" from the public's sight.

Not that Mars really disappeared, but that not many people paid attention.

Then in February of this year, when the three Mars probes entered the orbit of Mars one after another, the topic of Mars became popular again.

But when the probe should be in orbit, the rover that should land and release the rover, people have been fresh for a few days, and the topic of Mars has been silent again.

This time, Mars seemed to be really on fire.

Officials and civilians, groups and individuals, always and often, this is how much attention Mars is now.

No way, whoever makes the aliens come.

Mars naturally has something to do with "aliens".

In the earliest days, astronomers used simple astronomical telescopes to observe Mars. They found that the ice caps at the north and south poles of Mars, like the ice caps on Earth, change with the seasons.

Later, it was discovered that Mars and the Earth are relatively similar in many aspects, such as the rotation cycle and seasonal changes.

As the telescope becomes more sophisticated and larger, people can still see mountains, sandstorms, river valleys, and even "canals" on Mars.

At that time, people thought there might be life on Mars.

Then, the writers can no longer control their own hands.

Soon after, "War of the World", also called "Martian Invasion of Earth" was born.

Then came a series of science fiction novels about Mars.

After that, a well-known media person from Meriken broadcasted a radio drama live on CBS.

This radio drama is adapted from the novel "War of the World", and it is called "Martian Invasion of the Earth".

This media person used a situational approach, starting with a pseudo-news report, which is the pseudo-documentary mode used in movies now, but at that time it was broadcast.

The radio talked about burning meteorites falling to the ground, and also described the horrible appearance of aliens, followed by explosions, screams, and reporters in front of them. Many places were destroyed by attacks.

The radio drama was broadcast during the Second World War, and its broadcast format was imitating news broadcasts, so many Merrican listeners believed it was true, and immediately triggered a panic among more than one million Meriken people. Someone packed their packages and ran out of the city.

When the movie technology improved, Meriken began to shoot science fiction films related to Mars, or that the aliens at that time were all from Mars, and it’s no nonsense to come, just grab food, money, and women. .

By the way, it can also mean the opposite of the ocean.

Because Mars is also red.

People used to use telescopes on the earth to see it. Later, when the Mars rover was launched, people finally saw the true face of Mars.

But as soon as I saw it, people were shocked!

"There are really Martians on Mars!"

Meriken’s Viking Mars rover captured a landscape in its orbit. After it was sent back to Earth, the media and the audience looked at those images and found that it turned out to be a Martian face the size of a mountain.

This is definitely a martian wonder building!

However, with the improvement of the camera resolution of the next few probes, what people see is not so much like a human face, just an ordinary Martian mountain.

But "Martian Face" was so famous, so later there was a sci-fi movie dedicated to that gimmick called "Mission to Mars", which talked about the relationship between humans and Martians.

Later, there were probes that landed on Mars. People found that Mars was deadly silent, with nothing but sand, so people slowly became less enthusiastic.

But Mars is Mars, and it always surprises people.

People found that in ancient times, Mars was similar to Earth.

There is a thick atmosphere, a lot of water resources, volcanic activity, etc., but Mars is too small to preserve these things for a long time, and it slowly becomes what it is now.

As for whether it has produced life, people really don't know, at least the detectors after landing have found nothing of value.

But now that there is water, people take it for granted that there is life, even if there is no intelligent life, there will be other lives.

It's just that I haven't found it yet.

After all, humans only threw a few rover to the top. These rover crawled more slowly than tortoises. The places to explore are very limited, and it is not surprising that there are no useful things.

So people have been thinking about sending people to Mars for a field trip.

If the previous Cold War had been fought, perhaps the Mars fieldwork has now been completed, but after the end of the Cold War, the aerospace industry has burned too much money, so various goals and funds have been greatly reduced, and now the moon cannot be landed.

It's not that the technology is not good, but that he is reluctant to spend so much.

And now, it's time to have to spend money again, because "aliens" are here.

Just talk about Meriken, the space agency people are boiling.

The review of the increase in space funding was passed. The previously sealed Mars landing plan was also taken out of the archives. Various high-level meetings were one after another. Universities, private companies, and private research institutes were notified. Various orders were like snowflakes. Sprinkle it all the same.

There is only one goal for all these, and that is Mars!

"We are going to send someone to log on to it!"

Some old people had tears in their eyes, and Meriken was back at that time.

Meriken is really great again, understand Wang Niubi!

Later, I will follow Wang Hun.

Meriken Aerospace Agency, a meeting room blocked by the military police is very lively.

"Well, the nuclear rocket program that has been decided before has a propulsion efficiency of more than twice and a speed of more than three times that of traditional rockets. The overall spacecraft can reduce weight by 60%, and it only takes half the time of a chemical rocket to and from Mars."

"This is not bad. This is a plan that was finalized decades ago. Although the times are different, it is more beneficial to us. With more advanced technology, we can make it more suitable for flying in space."

"I don't think it will work. Thermonuclear rockets are still too dangerous. Once a nuclear leak occurs, the lives of astronauts cannot be guaranteed."

"Yes, the radiation in space is very serious. If you let the astronauts stay with the nuclear radiation, can they get to Mars?"

"I also think it is time to reconsider. Even if the astronauts are not considered, launching and entering space are not safe. Once the rocket launch fails or the spacecraft crashes on any planet, it will cause a nuclear disaster, not to mention this one. The engine itself is still injecting nuclear radiation gas, which is simply expensive and dangerous."

"You are all too careful. Our current technology is advanced enough that the crash will not happen at all. As for nuclear gas, it is theoretically within control."

"Look, you see, you also say it's'in theory', what use is it just talking about theory?"

"I've seen the archived information before. Our relevant technology is actually not perfect. Any rocket and spacecraft carrying nuclear materials requires a large amount of research and development, and it takes a lot of time. We are too late."

"Alas, it would be great if we had the advanced ion propulsion technology of Navigator. The vacuum thrust of their ion thruster has reached the kilonew level. We only have the cow level and there is no way to use it on large space equipment."

"It's a pity that the two countries have no intersection in the aerospace field. Although the relationship between the two space agencies is good, we cannot deny the very ruthless fact that we suppressed them. Now it is reasonable for them to disagree."

"At that time, that politician shouldn't be allowed to give a speech, if a scientist were to go up, it might be successful!"

"In fact, it’s not impossible. We can combine chemical propulsion equipment with ion propulsion equipment. When entering Mars orbit, we can use chemical propulsion equipment to accelerate the spacecraft to a very high speed, then throw them away and turn on the ion thruster. Slowly speed up, this is actually one way."

"No, it's too much trouble. Track assembly technology is a risky thing. Adding a set of power systems will increase the level of cumbersomeness. No, no, no."

"Why not, I think it works!"

A group of people quarreled endlessly, all talking about things decades ago, as if there was no more advanced technology now.

Uh, well, there seems to be no leaps and bounds in current technology. At most, the development of electronic computer technology has made flight control capabilities and automation technology better.

But the matter of landing on Mars and voyage to space, in the final analysis, it still has to fall on the power plant.

With a powerful enough power unit, they can send astronauts to Mars, and even farther, quickly and safely.

Unfortunately, in decades, the power system of interstellar voyage has not made much progress.

Even if it improves, it is not theirs.

That's why I worry about people.

And even if the advanced ion propulsion system is given to them, they actually dare not use it directly on the long-distance manned spacecraft. Without them, there is no practical verification, and they have to stay away from people.

The NASA is not actually a gathering place for the most advanced technology, but the safest and most reliable gathering place for technology.

Don’t you see the Space Fork’s manned dragon spacecraft. At the beginning, it used a cool rocket to reverse propulsion and landed. I was surprised that the space agency replaced it with a traditional parachute landing in the name of safety, and forced the grid to land two levels directly. .

If you don't change to a parachute, sorry, you won't get the order.

In their view, the use of advanced ion propulsion devices in the pilot's unmanned exploration spacecraft is a test.

Otherwise, who would build a 32-ton Mars rover, or even the complexity of it would be a small spacecraft.

This must be a technical test for the future manned spacecraft on a voyage to Mars.

So even if they took the technology, they had to build an unmanned spacecraft to try it out.

But the pilot's unmanned spacecraft is about to take off. They don't even have a design, and time is too late.

Not to mention that the most important "alien probe" has not been discovered yet, and what they are doing now is the most preliminary preparation.

Nothing can be done in a day or two for spaceflight.

However, these space experts only know that they are going to build a Mars spacecraft, but they don't know why they want to build it. Didn't they say that they want to cooperate globally?

Why do you have to build a Martian spacecraft alone?

And keep it secret.

They don't understand that the high-level decisive role is clear.

It just so happened that when there was a meeting there, there was a meeting in another secret meeting room, but there were no scientists here, mostly politicians in suits and soldiers in military uniforms.

"This matter must be kept secret and fast. Now the probe on Mars is basically determined to be the aliens, so we may encounter real aliens at any time."

A fat-eared politician paused when he said that, then he looked at other people and said: "If aliens are evil, we will definitely not be able to run. We don’t have that ability. Any country on earth None of them have that ability, but as the most powerful country on earth, we also have our confidence."

"Now we are mainly considering the hypothesis of alien friendship. Even if it is not friendly, it is sensible and negotiable. We must become the first country to contact them!"

"So we have to build a spaceship that can carry people on long voyages as soon as possible."

This is Merrican's plan.

What kind of cooperation between countries, what information sharing, what the "Convention on Contacts between Human Civilization and Extraterrestrial Civilization" stipulates that no individual contact with extraterrestrial civilization is allowed are all nonsense.

Of course, if aliens are evil and non-negotiable, they will definitely be the whole world when they are beaten and resisted. After all, there is a treaty, and the international law is clear.

But if the aliens are kind or negotiable, then I am embarrassed. Meriken must be the greatest country on earth.

And don't say anyone, don't look at Meriken preparing to build Mars or voyage spacecraft, other countries are definitely also building.

No need to think about it.

If a country has acted meticulously in accordance with international law, that country will not be far from death.

In fact, it is true.

The Europa Space Agency was also in a meeting recently, and it fully mobilized technical experts from Meriken, and only found aerospace experts that it can trust, and it is also considering building a long-distance spacecraft.

It has been too long since the center of the world has left Europa, and it is time to let it come back.

The sphere of influence on earth has been fixed for a long time, and it is not easy to be broken, but once external forces intervene, it will be different.

Not to mention that this time the external forces are so "external"!

So this time may be an opportunity, they need to seize it.

However, the threshold of this opportunity is relatively high, starting as a long-distance spacecraft that can carry people.

After all, if an alien comes, let the alien’s spacecraft land directly at the door of the house and talk about cooperation and drive the spacecraft up to talk about cooperation in space, the result will definitely be different.

There are also Teddy Bears. They are also considering building a long-distance spacecraft, but their funds are really hard to come up with.

So they need to find a big dog to cooperate.

From their analysis, it is estimated that they are willing to cooperate in this area. After all, the other capable companies are richer than him, and there is no shortage of capacity and funds. Those countries do not need to cooperate with other countries.

The distribution of power in the world may have to be reordered, and they are certain that countries with money but no power will not miss this opportunity.

Relatively speaking, the situation in Tianxia is more complicated.

Because there are so many surprises brought by Navigator, there is no need to worry about building a long-distance spacecraft, and even install a suitable power system for the Tianting space station. It is a huge long-distance spacecraft.

Tang Chao considered its flight capability when it was originally designed, so its force-bearing structure is a spacecraft structure. As long as it does not accelerate too fast or perform extreme maneuvers, the structure is absolutely fine.

Of course, the long-distance spacecraft does not need to be that big. Considering that the spacecraft needs to be flexible, it is more appropriate to have a smaller body and a stronger structure.

Therefore, the long-distance spacecraft should be a simplified version of the Tianting space station, plus the power module, it is a qualified manned long-distance spacecraft.

These are not troublesome, so they are considering how to deal with the aliens' arrival.

The friendly aliens said otherwise, if they are not friendly, then it is just one sentence: "If we seek peace through struggle, we will survive, and if we seek peace through compromise, we will die in peace."

Tianxia will surely let them know how powerful humans are.