Chapter 783

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

In that video, a semicircle lander separates from the golden heart spacecraft, drags a little flame light, falls towards the thin atmosphere of Mars, and finally becomes a point, disappears at the edge of the atmosphere of Mars

As predicted by the lander, NASA released relevant information on its official website as soon as the landing was successful, and sent the video clip of the golden heart to the Internet.

And the next thing is expected.

In just ten minutes, the total length of the video is less than two minutes, and the number of clicks soars all the way to the top three of the hottest real-time videos on YouTube.

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

After a long time, Chen Yunhai coughed softly and broke the silence.

"We need to discuss countermeasures -"

"there is nothing to discuss. I said from the beginning that it is enough to do our work well."

Close the notebook on the desk, and Lu Zhou looks at Academician Yuan Huanmin. After thinking for a moment, he opens his mouth and asks, "how long will the living cabin of the Moon Palace be ready?"

Academician Yuan hesitated and said.

"It's ready. It'll take another week."

"The next launch is scheduled in two weeks!" With that, Lu Zhou stuffed his notebook into his bag and stood up from the conference table. "Let's go, all busy. Let's go!"

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The successful landing of the golden heart has won great international prestige for the United States, and the whole North America has fallen into a sea of jubilation.

The comment area of the video released by NASA on youtube and its official website has been swiped by netizens all over the world.

The New York Times deliberately placed a cartoon with a star spangled boxing glove and a victory gesture next to the news report, as if to vent the last time it had stumbled over the cooling system of the Moon Palace's core module.

Even the Washington Post, which has always been famous for its preciseness, has rarely used "a great step in human history" to describe the success of the fire landing project.

In addition to the North American media coverage, the overseas media coverage also paid the highest attention to this matter.

This time, the BBC's comments, as always, stood on the stand of watching the theatre, and said that NASA had the upper hand in the competition.

At present, Ares' plan seems to be a bit deeper than the Moon Palace plan of China.

Compared with the three helium resources that can only be used at any time, the abundant methane resources on Mars can be used as the energy of liquid oxygen methane rocket engine.

It turns out that chemical propulsion technology is far from reaching the bottleneck, at least as the BFS rocket proves. In the future, the colonies on Mars will become the springboard for NASA to project spacecraft to other planets.

The future of electric propulsion may be broader, but does the liquid oxygen methane rocket engine look good?

Just as the popularity of Ares project is increasing, space-x announced that it will open a business with video websites such as YouTube to regularly release daily videos of Martian colonists online for free.

In an interview with the media, musk solemnly promised that the advertising revenue generated by the video will be used for all space projects.

At the same time, a message was released on the official websites of the White House and NASA to solicit the names of the Martian colonies from the American public, and an online vote was set up to count everyone's opinions.

This activity has aroused great enthusiasm of the North American people. Even those who are not interested in aerospace at ordinary times have also participated in the activity of name collection with great interest.

In less than a day, more than 30 million people voted.

After a series of screening, the White House finally announced "new Virginia" as the name of the first Mars colony after removing several apparently spooky names.

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

Now choosing this name to name the colony of Mars is undoubtedly quite memorable.

Just after the name of "new Virginia" was announced, NASA announced the next step of Ares plan.

Before continuing to send immigrants to Mars, the pioneers stationed on Mars will investigate the methane gas reserves, metal deposits and other resources near the colonies, and expand the scope of geological exploration activities to areas that cannot be reached by remote controlled Mars rovers, so as to explore the storage of solid carbon dioxide in the polar regions of Mars, evaluate the greenhouse effect of artificial start-up, and repair Mars The feasibility of gas reservoir and the most critical exploration of groundwater.

For now, the scale of victory seems to be tilting towards the east coast of the Pacific Ocean.While North America was reveling in the success of Ares' plan, the moon orbit Construction Committee on the other side of the Pacific Ocean was under a lot of pressure.

At the beginning of the space station plan, there was a lot of debate about whether to choose "Moon Palace" or "Heaven Palace". Now the breakthrough of Ares plan seems to make the debate louder.

However, Lu Zhou, the chief designer of the moon orbit construction committee, seems to have turned a deaf ear to these comments.

The launch schedule for the module of the Moon Palace's living quarters remains the same.

After the completion of the assembly of the living quarters, the Moon Palace, which has been installed with the function module, node module and experimental module, will float on the "nrho" orbit as a complete moon space station, and can be used for the ground command center to send researchers to enter.

At the same time, this is the last component of the first phase of the Moon Palace project

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The 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, with an air of elation on his face.

At the previous meeting, the faces of the opposition members were shriveled, which made him feel so happy that even the steak at noon was fragrant.

Just a week ago, opposition lawmakers were criticizing him for spending too much on the space program, but few now doubt that he is right.

The success of Ares plan is right!

The victory of the space race is right!

And the one who is leading the American people to victory is the greatest right!

He signed his name on the document in his hand, and he couldn't help sneering at the congressman who had pointed out to him in the meeting that he should be a little restrained.

"Why don't these fools understand? Although aerospace has spent a lot of money, it has stimulated the economy and created jobs. I don't know what they are dissatisfied with... "

Roosevelt's dam buoyed the American economy, and his rockets could do the same.

Shaking his head, he left the signed budget aside and picked up the next document on the California fusion plant project.

However, just as he was preparing to read carefully, there was a knock outside the door.

Put down the document in his hand, he cleared his throat and said "please come in".

When I saw director Carson at the door, there was a big smile on the president's face.

"Director Carson, nice to meet you. Please take a seat."

Looking at the president with a big smile on his face, Carson had a subtle expression, or did not know how to open his mouth.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. President..."

The president, with his fingers crossed on the desk and leaning on his desk chair, said kindly, "it seems that you have something to say, and any good news to report to me?"

"No Maybe it's the opposite of what you expected, "said director Carson, with a spit in his throat and a cold sweat in his forehead." our colonists may have had a little trouble... "