Just as Huaguo cheered for the heroes’ triumph, the news of the return of Xiangrui was also reported to the World through the overseas version of the media, as well as the public statements of NASA, ESA, Russian Space Agency and other organizations. Every corner.

Almost everyone, after hearing the news, the reaction was no surprise.

Prior to this, the North American media has been reporting on NASA experts, saying that although the Aussie has the 25-ton land-to-month transfer orbital capacity, it may face the same failure as the Soviets due to the rush of the moon landing plan. ending.

However, the reality is like a slap in the face, not only hitting their faces, but also breaking their fantasies.

Xiangrui not only successfully returned to the Nanjing City Space Launch Center, but also brought back three astronauts and a moon with a total weight of more than one kilogram.

Even if they don’t want to admit it, they have to face a terrifying reality.

Through the electric propulsion system, the Chinese nation that has achieved cornering overtaking in the aerospace field is catching up with them at an incredible speed.

Today is a lunar module and a national flag, so what will tomorrow be? What about the day after tomorrow?

There is no gap without comparison. Although it is impossible to say that NASA’s research in the field of outer space has not progressed for half a century, the pace of development is undoubtedly much slower. Now that China has embarked on the moon, NASA’s lunar space station plan has to wait until 2022 is launched. The Ares plan has been thundering and raining since its announcement until now, and no actual action can be seen.

All the Americans who are concerned about this matter can’t help but grieve their doubts and even anger.

What are their NASA doing?

In such a public opinion environment, the local media in North America began to change its direction.

From the scorn of the technology of China’s aerospace, it became the “anger” of NASA. In particular, the New York Times was the first. In several interviews, the opinions of NASA experts were adopted. However, after the report was published, it was indeed continuously hit, so that this time they did not invite NASA experts, but directly Point the gun at NASA and put a line of gunpowder titles on the headlines of the latest newspaper.

“When the Chinese nation was on the moon, what were our people doing? 》

Coincidentally, when the New York Times began to attack NASA with love and hate, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post also attacked NASA’s inaction from different angles. What is the use of funds several times or even dozens of times a year in China?

Among the many media, the most rigorous CNN political channel even called for a special investigation team to check NASA’s budget list for these years and claimed that there is a possibility of a shocking blackout.

For a time, NASA was also overwhelmed by people who were excited.

In fact, if it is pertinent, the results of the United States in the aerospace field have not been small in recent years. The boundary of its exploration has even reached the Nether King Star, and the two traveler detectors have already set foot in the field outside the solar system.

However, all these achievements sounded far less shocking than the moon landing.

After all, the probe is farther away, and it is also a detector, far less than the human footsteps to go beyond the field of Earth, and it can stimulate people’s senses.

In the face of the thrilling people, it’s obviously not just NASA. When one thing is enough to affect the country’s cohesiveness and affects the votes in the voters’ pockets, it’s not just a technical issue, but a political problem.

The authorities promised that the United States will continue to be great.

However, these promises are things that need to be fulfilled, and they can be fooled by the past.

Now the target of the media attack is NASA, but as a general matter, this fire may not be used for a long time to burn to the head of the White House…

……

White House.

In a conference room.

At the same conference table as the previous one, in addition to a few raw faces, sit in the same crowd as the last time.

When the current president came in, everyone stood up to show respect.

“Ladies, misters, please sit down.”

When I got to the main seat and sat down, the president looked around the conference table and stared at NASA director Carson for two seconds. Then he took back his gaze and said: “I need an explanation.”

Carson and deputy director look at each other in dismay, and finally shouted took a deep breath, brace oneself stood up and said.

“We have smashed the determination of China in the aerospace field… and the technical strength. Their application to the electric propulsion system exceeded our expectations. Before that, we never thought about the situation of electric power and working fluids. It can also provide thrust comparable to chemistry rockets. It turns out that electric propulsion systems are also feasible for climbing gravity wells. At present, we have combined the PPPL laboratory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other research institutes to improve the electric propulsion system…”

Knocking on the table interrupted Carson’s chatter, the president reached out and pinched his eyebrows and said impatiently.

“how long it takes?”

Carson squatted slightly and then smiled bitterly.

“This… there is no way to expect that before solving the thrust problem, we must first solve the problem of controllable fusion miniaturization.”

Before solving the problem of controllable fusion miniaturization, the problem of controllable fusion must be solved first. Although intuition tells Carson that solving the problem of controllable fusion miniaturization may not be as difficult as imagined, at least there is no difficulty in controlling fusion engineering itself, but now analyzing these things is useless.

After all, according to the results of the negotiations, at least next year, the two sides will be able to reach a technical exchange in the field of controllable fusion.

And the price is not small…

The president’s face was not good. “If there is no way to expect it, please stop your fart. What I need now is a solution, not listening to you explaining your incompetence!”

As soon as I heard this, Carson almost didn’t have a blood spray.

Shet!

Not you have to ask for an explanation?

Of course, although he spoke in his heart, he naturally could not say so.

Silence for a little while, he lightly coughed and continued.

“Of course, we have come up with a coping strategy… and we have already talked to our vice president, mister, before the meeting started.”

The president turned his attention to the vice president and saw the thin old man sitting on the vice table of the conference nodded, saying that he was swallowing with a maddening speed.

“Before the meeting started, I talked to Carson Mister for a while. His proposal was quite good, although it was a bit of a risk.”

Although the vice president is only a mascot in American politics, if the power is not political, the power may not be comparable to the governor of New Jersey, but it can also play a role at a certain time.

For example, in the case of the NSC restructuring, and the vice president personally coached.

In many cases, the president has no way to directly take care of things in the aerospace field. In most cases, it is coordinated by the presidential administrative office and the vice president himself.

“Adventure?” President frowned, looked towards Carson and asked, “What adventure.”

Carson screamed for aok a deep breath, said solemnly: “My advice is to start the first phase of the Ares program and send our life support unit to Mars!”

President frowned: “… Is this also a plan? And if I remember correctly, the test of the life support unit is not over now.”

“It’s true, but time has not allowed us to wait any longer. As you said, if it doesn’t have big problems, we should believe that our technicians have done their best,” deep calls took a deep breath, Carson continued, “If you omit some troublesome procedures, the fastest we are in half a year… No, it only takes two months! We can send it to Mars!”

The voice just fell, and a voice of discussion sounded at the conference table.

Carson is also sweating before his forehead.

Because he knows that his proposal is quite risky.

Or it is not just an adventure, but a gamble, holding the astronaut’s life to be a bet.

After the tragedy of Columbia, few people dared to do this!

Sure enough, a serious middle-aged man with expression stood up and stared at Carson sharply, opening his mouth.

“Director Carson, can I guess, are the procedures that you call troubles refer to those ‘required testing links’?”

In the face of the president’s executive office consultant, Carson Brace oneself explained: “The test session is not a must… In fact, we are technically able to ensure that the life support unit can run at least two stably with sufficient power. More than a year.”

The man continued to send: “What do you use to guarantee?”

The Carson language plug, when I didn’t know how to answer, the president suddenly spoke.

“He is right.”

“Sometimes we should be flexible, especially in the face of a good-natured opponent. Isn’t the National Space Committee established for this?”

Hearing the president mentioned himself, the vice president lightly smiled and reached out to tie his neck tie.

He usually has a low sense of being, and only in this case can show others their sense of existence.

The words of the president caused a lot of people to whisper, the person who had previously attacked Director Carson hesitated, but still insisted.

“President mister, I must remind you that this does not comply with the procedure.”

“Not so, the test doesn’t have to be in the Arizona desert, or in the desert of Mars,” Carson said immediately. “We can send the life support unit first, then start it remotely to see if it works.” If we can, we will send the astronauts up.”

Although he does not agree with this kind of adventure in his heart, he has not taken care of this.

As he had previously stood in the satellite control room, as his secretary said.

NASA needs a victory.

The United States needs a victory!

If not…

Both horizontal and vertical are the road to resign and resign.

As a result, he has no other choice at all.

“Just as he said, send the life support unit to Mars to test,” seeing the annoying guy still intending to say something, the president knocked on the conference table with a pen. “There is no time to waste us, Chinese people.” After provoking this competition, every minute is very valuable to us!”

With the eyes, the person who got up before sat back, and the president then turned his attention to Director Carson.

“Carson Mister, I hope that after two months, I can open champagne with you and celebrate our success at the White House banquet. Please don’t let me down, otherwise no one will sympathize with you!”

The meaningful eyes made Carson’s head ooze a few cold sweats.

Even so, he was a bracelet oneself, swearing his right hand on his chest.

“I promise you.”

“God is on our side!”

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