Although these things are all recognized facts, but just thinking about being taken out to flog the corpse like this makes me feel ashamed and thrown to the four oceans!

Washington, NASA headquarters.

"These damned media don't even want their face for the click rate! They should be controlled!"

Charles Boll angrily threw the New York Times in his hand on the table. Just thinking about the recent news made his face burn red, hot and embarrassing.

Recently, NASA has not shared news on the official self-media instagram.

Because I dare not, everyone knows the matter of shooting the top bird. It can be said that NASA is the source of everything in this mutual spraying incident.

Just look at NASA's 700 million followers on instagram. This should be good news, but in this time period, even NASA dare not go out.

Are there still few companies and institutions lying on the ground?

Chapter 160 Five Mars Has Good Things

"Sir, it's actually not a bad thing. At least we have attracted 700 million fans during this period, and the cumulative number of fans has exceeded 1000 million. It is worth celebrating." Boer's secretary said with a smile.

"Damn good! You like to lose face, don't you? You don't think things are bad enough?" Charles was furious when he heard the secretary's words.

"Actually, we can make good use of this wave of fans, as long as the wind blows." The secretary smiled.

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

Charles' secretary said eloquently: "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 news about us from time to time."

"For example, our astronauts on the 'Tianzhou' can live broadcast their daily activities in space on YouTube."

"nasa can do some more people-friendly things. Although we are a government-type scientific research institution, we must keep pace with the times and be more people-friendly. At least we can provide some help in applying for funds. Support is the key .”

Charles, who gradually calmed down, suddenly realized: Indeed, Future Technology has done a very good job in this regard, and some time ago, it released a video of the test flight. "

"This company never misses the slightest opportunity to attract fans. Although he does not need support to apply for funding, these fans can be transferred to his major companies to consume their products. The reason is the same."

"This matter is left to you to deal with. Nasa's image is very important, understand? For funding!"

"Yes, sir, for funds! Also, sir, don't forget the meeting in 10 minutes." The secretary showed a sexy smile, pointed to his wrist, and then left Boer's office.

Charles withdrew a trace of depression in his heart, and then came to the conference room. The participants were basically all present, including Elon Musk.

In addition, there are leaders from Alphabet and Bigelow Aerospace. More than 20 people gathered in the conference room, most of whom are technology engineers or astrophysicists.

The people here are all the top elites in the United States, and they are gathering together at this moment to discuss the same topic - landing on Mars.

"The plan has changed. Future Technology recently announced big news. They are going to build a large space station on Mars. The purpose is unknown, but this information is very important to us."

Charles Boll came to the meeting and looked around the crowd, saying: "Landing on Mars is indeed the main purpose of political missions, but if we think so now, we are doomed!"

Musk, who was sitting next to him, said in a deep voice: "Future Technology intends to operate a large space station in Mars orbit, obviously with a clear purpose."

"What if we just sent astronauts to the surface of Mars and got a title of being the first to land on Mars."

"Although it is a huge political victory, from a business point of view, we spent so much energy and money just to leave a footprint on the surface of Mars. This business is a blood loss to grandma's family!"

"But, what can there be on Mars? And what can be commercialized?" Another person said puzzledly...

Charles glanced at the other party: "Then how do you explain that future technology will operate a kiloton super space station in Mars orbit? It will operate for at least 25 years?" Charles' rhetorical question left the other party speechless.

"We don't know what treasures there are on Mars, but future technology may know. Otherwise, why did Li Linfei make the 'Gemini Project' at all costs? Do you really think he has too much money to burn?"

"I think it is very necessary to figure out the motivation of Future Technology Group, which is very important!" Someone said again.

"This kind of thing is not something we should worry about. We are not professionals in intelligence. The CIA has already begun to intervene."

Charles looked around the crowd and said: "What we have to do is to get our jobs done. Although we don't know what future technology has taken a fancy to on Mars, at least it has given us a key piece of information, that is, there must be treasures on Mars."

"We can't wait until the CIA has credible intelligence to start formulating a strategy. By then, it will be too late."

"Mr. Boer, what do you mean?" another NASA personnel 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 funding, it is just to leave a footprint on Mars."

"That's really not to lose too badly. We can't follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union. On the surface, we won a huge victory, but in fact we lost completely."

"Therefore, we need to set a higher goal. This Mars program is not only to complete the goal of landing on Mars, but also to complete a political mission."

"At the same time, we need to establish ourselves on the surface of Mars. We have more time to deal with it. There is an outpost base on Mars. When we find a treasure, we can also get a share of it, so that we won't be helpless at the critical moment."

"Mars, there must be treasures, we don't know, but the future technology knows the treasure!" Charles said with great certainty at the end.

At this moment, one of the scientists in the audience walked over to the large crystal screen on the wall of the conference reception desk.

The distribution map of the solar system appeared on the screen, and he said: "Mr. Charles, it is almost impossible to complete the task of landing on Mars and establishing a surface outpost base at the same time. In three and a half months, Mars will enter the stage of closest distance to the Earth."

"This is the golden launch window. If we want to build an outpost base according to Mr. Charles' request, it means that the entire plan needs to be reworked."

"We need to send the required facilities of the outpost base into space. During this time, we have missed the golden launch window. If we want to catch up with Mars, we need to carry more fuel."

"And the increase in materials required for the outpost base means that we need more propellant fuel, greater thrust, and higher investment, but it is basically impossible..."

After all, the scientist looked back at Charles: "I know it's urgent, but... we can only take it one step at a time, and there is no room for sloppiness. This is a space activity!"

"Damn it!" Charles scolded in a low voice. He also knew that this was an indisputable fact. If you don't rush, Mars will not wait for you, and will stay away every second.The discussion reached a deadlock for a while.

Elon Musk, who hadn't spoken for a long time, looked at the star map on the main screen. When everyone was silent, his eyes suddenly lit up, staring at the screen and said with a little excitement: "I think it's okay!"

"What do you mean?" Charles looked at him suspiciously.

Elon Musk got up from his seat in an instant, without even looking at Charles, he quickly came to the main screen, and everyone silently watched Musk's every move.

Chapter 160 Six Doing a Big One

The latter glanced at everyone, then looked at the main screen, and said, "In three and a half months, the orbit of Mars will arrive here, which is the so-called golden launch cycle, right?"

Musk looked back at the crowd, saw everyone nodding silently, he looked back at the screen again, pointed to the three terrestrial planets, and said: "This is Mars, this is the Earth, this is Venus, three planets orbit, Mars will On the 260th Earth Day, it will start to follow the orbit from the shortest distance and gradually move away from the Earth."

"What if we choose to chase the distant Mars from inner orbit?"

Musk said more and more smoothly, pointing to the three planets on the orbit of the star map: "Guys, this year! It is the golden launch period in the golden launch period. Let's look at the three celestial bodies of the earth, Venus and Mars. The track division diagram between..."

The scientist looked at the orbits of the three planets in the star chart, and Musk's remarks instantly made his eyes brighten, and his heart suddenly became bright and excited.

"Mr. Elon, do you mean...is..."

"That's right!" Musk nodded slowly, then looked back at the star map, and said: "Not only can we get more preparation time when Mars is far away, but also transport more materials to outer space for assembly, including sentinels. Station base, but also complete the pursuit of the target Mars, from the inner ring of the earth's orbit to complete the curve overtaking. "

"You see, our spacecraft is assembled and resupplied at the dock in Earth orbit, then accelerates away from Earth and enters low-Earth lunar orbit."

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