Chapter 528

NASA headquarters, Washington.

"These damned media don't even want to face the click through rate! It should be regulated! " Charles Boer angrily left the "New York Times" on the table. In recent days, news just thinking about it made his face as red, hot and embarrassed. Recently, NASA has not shared news in the official we media instagram.

Because I don't dare. Everyone knows about shooting the first bird with a gun. This mutual spray incident can be said that NASA is the source of everything. Just look at the 7 million fans skyrocketing on instagram. This should be good news, but even NASA dare not go out during this period of time.

Are there still a few companies and institutions lying down with guns?

"Sir, it's not a bad thing. At least we've smoked 7 million fans during this period, and the total number of fans has exceeded 10 million. It's worth celebrating." Said bor's secretary with a smile.

"Damn it! You like losing face, don't you? Don't you think it's bad enough? " When Charles heard the Secretary's words, he was very angry.

"In fact, we can make good use of this wave of fans, just wait for the wind to pass." The Secretary said with a smile.

"For example..." Charles glanced at her and said.

Charles's secretary said: "we haven't released the latest news on INS for a long time. With the help of this wave of fans, we can release some dynamic news from time to time. For example, our astronauts on the" Tianzhou "can broadcast their daily activities in space on YouTube. NASA can do something more people-friendly. Although we are government scientific research institutions, we should keep pace with the times and be more people-friendly. At least, we can provide some help in applying for funding. Support is the key. "

Charleston, who gradually calmed down, suddenly realized, "it's true. Xlous company has done a very good job in this respect. Some time ago, it also released the video of the test flight. The company has never let go of the opportunity of sucking powder. Although he does not need support to apply for funds, these fans can transfer to his major companies to consume their products The truth is the same. It's up to you to deal with this. NASA's image is very important, understand? For money

"Yes, sir, for the money! By the way, sir, don't forget the meeting in ten minutes. " The secretary gave a sexy smile, pointed to the wrist, and left BOL's office.

Charles retreated from his depression and went to the conference room. The participants were almost there, including Elon Musk. In addition, there were leaders from alphabet and Bigelow Aerospace. More than 20 people gathered in the conference room, most of whom were scientific and technological engineers or astrophysicists.

The people here are the top elites in the United States, and they are all gathered to discuss the same topic - landing on Mars.

"The plan has changed. Xlou s recently announced big news that they are going to build a large space station on Mars. The purpose is not clear, but this information is very important for us." Charles Boer came to the conference, looked around the crowd, and said, "landing on Mars is a political mission, but if we think so now, we are doomed to lose."

Musk, who was sitting nearby, said in a deep voice: "xlous is going to operate a large space station in Mars orbit with a clear purpose. If we just send astronauts to the surface of Mars and get the title of the first landing on Mars, although it is a great political victory, from a commercial point of view, we spend so much energy and money just to leave footprints on the surface of Mars, and this business will lose blood to grandma's house! "

"But what can be on Mars? What can be commercialized? " Another person is puzzled to say..

Charles glanced at each other. "How do you explain that xlous is going to run a kiloton Super Space Station in Mars orbit? At least 25 years of operation? "

Charles's rhetorical question left the other party speechless.

"We don't know what treasures are on Mars, but xlou s may know. Otherwise, why would Ren Hong spare no effort to make a" Gemini plan "? Do you really think he has too much money to burn? "

"I think it's important to understand the motivation of xlous, which is very important!" Another said.

"This is not something we should worry about. We are not intelligence professionals. The CIA has begun to intervene." Charles looked around the crowd and said, "what we need to do is to get our job done. Although we don't know what xlous is interested in on Mars, at least it gives us a crucial message, that is, there must be treasures on Mars. We can't wait for the CIA to get reliable information before we start to formulate strategies. By then, it's too late."

"What do you mean, Mr. ball?" Another NASA official asked curiously.

Charles was silent for a moment, and then said, "we must prepare in advance. As Mr. musk said, if we burn tens of billions of dollars in funds just to leave a footprint on Mars, we should not lose too badly. We can't follow the example of the Soviet Union. We won a huge victory in the face of it, but we lost completely.""Therefore, we need to set a higher goal. This Mars project will not only complete the goal of landing on Mars, complete a political mission, but also establish our own Mars outpost base on the surface of Mars. In this way, we will have more time to deal with it. There are sentinel bases on Mars, and when we find the baby, we can also take a share of it, so as not to be helpless at the critical moment

"Mars, there must be babies, we don't know, but xlous knows the baby!" Charles said in the end, with great certainty.

At this time, one of the scientists left his seat and went to the large crystal screen on the wall of the front desk, where the distribution map of the solar system appeared. He said, "Mr. Charles, it is almost impossible to complete the task of landing on Mars and setting up a ground sentinel base at the same time. Three and a half months later, Mars will enter the stage of the closest distance to the earth. This is the golden launch window. If we want to build a sentinel base according to Mr. Charles's requirements, it means that the whole plan needs to be redesigned. We need to send the necessary facilities of the sentinel base into space. During this period, we have missed the golden launch window and want to catch up To catch up with Mars, we need to carry more fuel, and the increase of materials required for sentinel bases means that we need more propulsion fuel, more thrust and higher investment, but it is basically impossible... "

Then the scientist looked back at Charles, "I know it's urgent, but Only one step at a time, no sloppy, this is space activities

"Damn it!" Charles scolded in a low voice, he also knew that it was an indisputable fact. If you can't hurry, Mars will not wait for you, and it will be far away every second.

The discussion fell into a deadlock for a while.

Elon Musk, who had not spoken for a long time, looked at the star map on the home screen. When everyone was silent, he suddenly brightened his eyes, looked at the screen and said with a little excitement: "I think it can be!"

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