Technology Bigshot

Washington, NASA headquarters.

"These goddamn media should be censored because they don't even want their face for hits." Charles Boll angrily threw the New York Times in his hand on the table. Just thinking about the recent news made his face burn. The same is red, hot and embarrassing. Recently, NASA has not shared news on the official self-media instagra.

Because I dare not, everyone knows the matter of shooting the top bird. This mutual spraying incident can be said to be the source of everything. Just look at the 7 million followers of NASA on Instagram. This should be a thing Good news, but in this time period, even NASA dare not go out.

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

"Sir, it's actually not a bad thing. At least we have attracted 7 million fans during this period, and the cumulative number of fans has exceeded 10 million. It is worth celebrating." Boer's secretary said with a smile.

"Damn it's a good thing, you like to lose face, don't you think it's not 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 with eloquence: "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 They live broadcast their daily activities in space on youtube. NASA can do some more people-friendly things. Although we are a government-style scientific research institution, we must keep pace with the times and be more people-friendly, at least in It can also provide some help in applying for funds, and support is the key."

Charles, who gradually calmed down, suddenly realized, "That's true. Xous company has done a very good job in this area. It also released the video of the test flight some time ago. This company never misses the slightest chance to attract fans. Although he doesn't Support is needed to apply for funding, but 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 handle, the image of NASA is very important Do you understand that it is for funding”

"Yes, sir. Don't forget the meeting in ten minutes for the sake of funds." The secretary showed a sexy smile, pointed to his wrist, and 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, and besides that, there were also the heads of Habet and Bigelow Aerospace. , more than 20 people gathered in the conference room, most of them 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 of landing on Mars.

"The plan has changed. Xous 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 Mars is indeed the main purpose of political missions, but if we think so now, then we are doomed."

Musk, who was sitting next to him, said in a deep voice: "Xous company wants to operate a large space station in Mars orbit, obviously with a clear purpose. If we just send astronauts to the surface of Mars and get a first landing The title of Mars, although it is a huge political victory, but from a business point of view, we spend so much energy and money just to leave a footprint on the surface of Mars, and this business is a loss to my grandma’s family.”

"However, what can be on Mars and what can be commercialized," said another person puzzled. .

Charles glanced at the other party, "Then how do you explain that Xous Company will operate a kiloton super space station in Mars orbit for at least 25 years?"

Charles' rhetorical question left the other party speechless.

"We don't know what treasures there are on Mars, but xous may know, otherwise why would Ren Hong make the Gemini plan at all costs? Do you really think that he has too much money and no place to burn it?"

"I think it is very necessary to find out the motive of xous, this is very critical," someone said again.

"This kind of thing is not something we should worry about, and 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 job done, although I don't know what xous is looking at on Mars Things, but at least it gave us a key message, that is, there must be babies on Mars, and we cannot wait until the CIA obtains reliable information before starting to formulate strategies, and it will be too late by then."

"Mr. Boll, what do you mean?" another NASA personnel asked curiously.

Charles was silent for a moment, and then said: "We have to prepare in advance. As Mr. Musk said, if we burn tens of billions of dollars just to leave a footprint on Mars, we really don't want to lose too badly. We can't Walking in the footsteps of the Soviet Union, it was a huge victory on the surface, but in fact it was a complete loss."

"Therefore, we need to set a higher goal. This time, the Mars program must not only complete the goal of landing on Mars and complete a political mission, but also establish our own Mars outpost base on the surface of Mars. In this way, we can There is more time to deal with it, there is an outpost base on Mars, and when the treasure is discovered, we can also get a share of it, so that we will not be helpless at the critical moment."

"Mars, there must be a baby, we don't know, but Xous knows the baby" Charles said with great certainty at the end.

At this time, a scientist among the participants walked to the large crystal screen on the wall at the front desk of the conference, and the distribution map of the solar system appeared on the screen, and he said: "Mr. It is almost an impossible task. In three and a half months, Mars is about to enter the closest phase 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 time period. If we want to catch up with Mars, we need to carry more fuel, and the outpost base needs The increase in materials means that we need more propellant fuel, greater thrust, and higher input, but it is basically impossible”

After all, the scientist looked back at Charles, "I know it's urgent, but I can only take it one step at a time. There is no room for sloppy. 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.

Discussions 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."

To be continued.

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