Chapter 783 Reaching Mars?

For the Huaguo academic circles, June is the time when the primary list of academicians is announced.

At the same time, June is also the third month since the launch of the Heart of Gold...

In the deep space tens of millions of kilometers away from the earth, a silver-white spaceship is slowly advancing.

Although it looks like a snail crawling slowly against the background of the distant sun and the fiery red planet that is close at hand, in fact its speed at this moment has reached nearly four kilometers per second.

If it had returned to a faster speed four days ago, this was the result of nearly ninety hours of active deceleration after being captured by the Martian gravitational system.

Floating in the cabin, staring at the fiery red planet outside the porthole for a long time, Johnson smiled triumphantly.

"Mars! God, we're finally here!"

Holding an electronic camera in his hand, he took a picture of the fiery red planet. Jones, who was standing by the porthole, also let out a sigh of emotion.

"...It's really beautiful!"

Four days ago, the BFS spacecraft carrying the colony module successfully separated from the BFR rocket, entered the Martian gravitational system, and orbited the planet in an elliptical orbit.

Now, after a long period of active deceleration, the BFR manned spacecraft named Heart of Gold has finally successfully approached the upper part of the Martian atmosphere after several complicated orbital changes.

Here is the end of their journey.

It will also be the starting point for human civilization to march towards the starry sky!

"When are we going to land?" Taiwei murmured after glancing at the planet outside the window, "I always feel like I'm floating on it and panicking."

Unlike the Johnson who dreamed of becoming Columbus, and even more different from the Jones who ran to sign up for the Ares project just because of a broken relationship, he came here only to avoid debts.

As for why you came to Mars to avoid debt...

There is no reason, he never does things without a plan.

Maybe one day when he was drunk, he saw the advertisement of Space-X, and then he filled out the form with the mentality of giving it a try. As a result, when he almost forgot about it, someone suddenly called He told him he was picked.

To be honest, he thought it was a scam call at first. After all, he really didn't expect that they would really find a black man on this spaceship, and they also chose him who had no culture and only played football.

Fortunately, NASA did not ask him to do complicated things, but only trained him with some basic knowledge that the colonists must understand. The specific professional issues involved will be completed by Johnson, a former Marine Corps member.

Unlike him and Jones, the "captain" of the Heart of Gold is an astronaut who has undergone serious selection and professional training, and has signed a contract with Space-X several years ago.

It is said that there was no Ares plan at that time, Huaguo had not yet started manned moon landings, and colonizing Mars was purely Space-X's own plan...

"Landing right away!" Leaving the side of the porthole, Johnson floated to the side of his seat, watched the two teammates standing in the cabin clapped their hands, "Alright guys...and ladies, our future The new home is right in front of you. The current orbital altitude is 316.7 kilometers, and we will reach the target airspace in 5 minutes! Please put on the Mars space suit, connect to the environmental control and life support system, and give me an OK gesture when you are ready!"

Nervously inserted the pipe of the environmental control and life support system under the seat, Taiwei, who had fixed himself with the seat belt, looked around and asked nervously, "How long will we live here?"

Johnson smiled heartily and said, "About four or five years soon! After the two-round launch window, someone will 'change shifts' with us. Of course, it may be a lifetime. I quite like this place. The scenery here is like Las Vegas, as far as the eye can see is a long stretch of yellow sand."

Taiwei couldn't help complaining: "Las Vegas is not so desolate!"

"Then let's build it a little more like that...Guys, prepare to land! The environmental control and life support system in the cabin is activated, 3, 2, 1...ignite!"

"New World, here we come!"

As the spacecraft reached the target airspace, Johnson pressed the landing button the moment the orbital calibration was completed.

As a violent shaking came from the seat below him, he quickly saw from the porthole that the dome-shaped long-spindle-shaped aircraft was left behind by them, getting farther and farther away from them.

Feeling the pull of gravity, Taiwei cursed "Shet" in a low voice uneasily. Johnson, who was sitting in the driver's seat, clenched his teeth, but his face was full of excitement.

Jones, who was also sitting in the cockpit, had a tense expression, looked around anxiously, and silently prayed for the safety of the trip in his heart.

No matter what mood, no matter what motivation, they have taken the first step towards Mars.

As for the next step, only God can answer them...

...

Even at the point of approach, Mars is separated from Earth by tens of millions of kilometers.

Sending an e-mail from here to Earth takes at least nearly three minutes. Therefore, after entering the Mars gravity system, it has been difficult for NASA's ground command center to accurately track the route of the Heart of Gold and provide full navigation.

However, although the three-minute delay brought great difficulty to the command work, it did not prevent the earth from receiving the news of the successful landing of the Heart of Gold...

Jinling Space Launch Center.

Since the establishment of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee, it has become the headquarters of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee.

In order to facilitate the construction of the lunar orbit, not only the two major groups of Aerospace Science and Technology have set up offices here, even the space agency has almost moved two departments from Shangjing to here.

At this very moment, in the meeting room on the first floor of the launch center's control tower, an urgent report meeting is in progress.

Standing in front of the conference table, holding a report in his hand, Chen Yunhai, deputy director of the space agency and director of the Organization Department of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee, said with a serious expression at the moment.

"... 35 minutes ago, we received a message from the Qianzhou Radio Astronomy Observatory. Through active space signal diagnosis and identification, it was confirmed that an artificial electromagnetic wave communication signal came from the direction of Mars, and the message transmission time was 10 minutes."

Putting the report in his hand on the table, he looked around the conference table, paused and continued.

"Here is the report of the FAST project team. According to their speculation, the Heart of Gold should have successfully entered orbit around Mars!"

There were whispers at the conference table.

Many people turned their attention to Lu Zhou who was sitting on the other side of the conference table, staring at the laptop on the table, but unfortunately, there were not many expressions on Lu Zhou's face.

The senior academician Yuan Huanmin, the chief engineer of the Air Science Group, was silent for a while before speaking.

"Have they started landing yet?"

"It's not certain yet, but if they have successfully entered orbit, the difficulty of landing may not be very great."

Although it is the first time to send people to Mars, this is not the first time NASA has visited Mars. Beginning with Viking 1, the US aerospace industry has accumulated half a century of experience in the research of landing on the surface of Mars. Even if there is a problem with the Ares plan, it is unlikely to appear on the ring of landing on Mars.

After hearing Academician Yuan's question, Chen Yunhai was silent for a few seconds before speaking.

"It is not certain yet, we are confirming the accuracy of the news..."

"no need."

Sitting at the corner of the conference table, Lu Zhou, who had been staring at the laptop without speaking, suddenly spoke.

"...They should have succeeded. The message captured by the FAST project team just now is probably the video of the fire landing transmitted by the Heart of Gold to the NASA ground command center."

Chen Yunhai froze for a moment, pushed down his glasses and asked.

"how do you know……"

Lu Zhou didn't explain much, turned the laptop around and showed the content in the video.

"Because they updated the video on YouTube just ten seconds ago."

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