Chapter 782

For the Chinese academic community, June is the time when the preliminary list of academicians will be released.

At the same time, June was the third month of the launch of the golden heart

Tens of millions of kilometers away from the earth in the deep air, a silver white spacecraft slowly forward.

Although the distant sun and the nearby red planet of fire are the background, it moves slowly like a snail, but in fact, its speed at the moment is nearly four kilometers per second.

Four days ago, it would have been faster, after nearly 90 hours of active deceleration after being captured by the Mars gravitational system.

Floating in the cabin, staring at the fiery red planet outside the side window for a long time, Johnson's mouth raised a smile of victory.

"Mars! God, we are here at last! "

Holding an electronic camera in his hand, he took a picture of the fiery red planet, and Jones, standing by the porthole, also expressed a sigh.

“…… It's so beautiful! "

Four days ago, the BFS spacecraft carrying the colonial module successfully separated from the BFR rocket and entered the Mars gravitational system, making an elliptical orbit around the planet.

Now, after a long period of active deceleration, the BFR manned spacecraft, called the heart of gold, finally managed to approach the upper atmosphere of Mars after several complex orbit changes.

This is the end of their journey.

It will also be the starting point of human civilization towards the starry sky!

"When shall we land?" Looking out of the window at the planet, Tavi muttered in a low voice, "I always feel like I'm in a state of panic."

Unlike Johnson, who had a dream of becoming Columbus, and Jones, who just ran to sign up for the Ares program just because he was lovelorn, he came here just to avoid debt.

As for why to come to Mars to avoid debt

For no reason, he never had a plan.

Maybe one day when he was drunk, he saw the space-x advertisement, and then filled in the form with a try attitude. As a result, even he forgot about it, someone suddenly called him to tell him that he was chosen.

To be honest, he thought it was a phone scam at first. After all, he didn't expect that they would find a black man to come to the ship, and he chose him who had no culture but played rugby.

Fortunately, NASA didn't ask him to do anything complicated, but trained him in some basic knowledge that the colonists must understand. The specific professional issues involved will be completed by former Marine Johnson.

Unlike him and Jones, the "Captain" of the golden heart, a carefully selected and professionally trained astronaut, signed a contract with space-x several years ago.

It is said that there was no ares plan at that time, and the Chinese nation had not started manned moon landing. Colonizing Mars was purely space-x's own plan

"Land now!" Leaving the side of the porthole, Johnson floated to the side of his seat, watched two teammates standing in the cabin clap their hands, "OK guys And ladies, our future home is just around the corner. At present, the orbit height is 316.7 km, and it will reach the target airspace in 5 minutes! Please put on the Mars space suit, connect the environmental control and life protection system, and give me a OK sign when you are ready! "

Nervously, he stuck the pipe of the environmental control and life insurance system under the seat, fixed himself with the safety belt and looked left and right. Nervously, he asked, "how long will we live here?"

Johnson smiled heartily and said, "it's about four or five years! After the two rounds of launch window period, someone will "change shifts" with us. Of course, it may be a lifetime. I still like it here. The scenery here is like Las Vegas, looking at the long yellow sand. "

Tai Wei could not help but make complaints about "Las Vegas is not so desolate!"

"Let's build it a little bit like that Guys, get ready to land! The environmental control and life insurance system in the cabin is started, 3, 2, 1 Fire! "

"New world, here we are!"

As the spacecraft reached the target airspace, Johnson pressed the landing button at the moment when the orbit calibration was completed.

With a violent shake from the seat under me, I could see that the long shuttle with a dome was thrown away from them and further away from them outside the porthole.

Feeling the pull of gravity, tyvee cursed "Shetter" in a low voice, Johnson in the driver's seat clenched his teeth, but his face was filled with excitement.

Jones, who was also sitting in the cockpit, looked around uneasily, and prayed silently for the safety of the trip.

No matter what their mood or motivation, they have taken the first step to Mars.

As for the next step, only God can answer them……

Even at the approach point, Mars is tens of millions of kilometers away from earth.

It takes at least three minutes to send an email from here to the earth. So it's very difficult for NASA's ground command center to track the route of the golden center and provide full navigation after entering the Mars gravitational system.

However, although the three minute delay has brought a lot of difficulties to the command work, it has not prevented the earth from getting the news that the golden heart has successfully landed

Jinling space launch center.

Since the establishment of moon orbit construction committee, it has become the base of moon orbit construction committee.

In order to facilitate the construction of the lunar orbit, not only the two major groups of Aeronautics and Astronautics have set up offices here, but also the space administration has almost moved the two departments from Shanghai to Beijing.

At this moment, in the conference room on the first floor of the command tower of the launch center, an emergency report meeting is in progress.

Standing at the conference table, holding a report in his hand, Chen Yunhai, deputy director of the space agency and director of the Organization Department of the moon orbit construction committee, said at the moment with grim expression and meticulous attention.

“…… 35 minutes ago, we received a message from Qianzhou Radio Observatory. Through active space signal diagnosis and identification, we confirmed that there was an artificial electromagnetic wave communication signal from Mars. The transmission time of the message was 10 minutes. "

Put the report in his hand on the table, he looked around the conference table and continued after a meal.

"This is the report of fast project team. According to their speculation, the golden heart should successfully enter orbit around Mars!"

There was a whisper at the meeting table.

Many people turned their attention to the boat sitting at the other end of the conference table, staring at the laptop on the table. Unfortunately, there was not much expression change on the face of the boat.

Yuan Huanmin, chief engineer of aviation science group, said after a moment of silence.

"Have they started landing?"

"I'm not sure at present, but if they have successfully entered the orbit, it will not be very difficult to land."

Although it is the first time to send people to Mars, this is not the first time NASA has visited Mars. Since pirate 1, the U.S. aerospace industry has accumulated half a century of experience in the study of landing on the surface of Mars. Even if there's a problem with ares's plan, it's unlikely to be on the landing ring.

Hearing Academician Yuan's inquiry, Chen Yunhai was silent for a few seconds and said.

"We are not sure yet. We are confirming the accuracy of the information..."

"No more."

Sitting in the corner of the conference table, staring at the silent land boat of the laptop computer, suddenly said.

“…… They should have succeeded. The message that the fast project team just captured is probably the video of the golden heart transmitting to the NASA ground command center

Chen Yunhai is slightly stunned, pushes his glasses and asks.

"How do you know..."

Without much explanation, Lu Zhou turned the laptop around and showed the content in the video.

"Because just a dozen seconds ago, they updated their videos on YouTube."