I have joined the astronaut brigade for so many years, and I have heard countless mobilization meetings, but it is the first time that Liang Youcheng is so excited.

“…… Reclaim the wasteland into fertile land and turn the desert into an oasis! ”

Academician Lu's words simply poked into his heart, making the blood in his whole body boil.

It's as if something carved deep into the bone marrow has been awakened by a voice.

That innate sense of mission is urging him to spread order and prosperity farther!

Liang Youcheng is obviously not the only one who is excited.

Academician Lu had just left Biosphere A on his front foot, and the news that the Ascending Fire program would be launched within a month spread throughout the research base.

It's not that anyone leaked the news, but that this matter was not deliberately kept secret, and even before Lu Zhou arrived in the desert area, Renren Daily and other media were paving the way for this plan.

In particular, CCTV's science and education column has launched a three-episode column program, under the name of "The Future Home of Mankind", and invited Academician Yuan Huanmin of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences to popularize the blueprint of China's space program in the next 20 years, as well as the practical significance and future vision of building a scientific research station on Mars and a space base at Lagrange points.

Therefore, almost on the afternoon of the opening of Biosphere A, the news was spread to every corner of the country by reporters stationed in the Gurbantunggut Desert through the camera and microphone of the interview!

Almost every newspaper that can be seen, the news on the headlines is the same thing!

"Beijing Evening News": [Biosphere A opens! ] A new era of artificial biosphere research! 】

"Science and Technology News": [The 400-day closed experiment has achieved phased success! Twenty subjects are in normal physical condition! 】

"Huaguo Agricultural University Newspaper": [Huaguo has mastered the technology of fully enclosed space colonization capsule! ] Professor Hu Yang of our university participated in the research of this project! 】

"Jinling University Daily": [Academician Lu of our school is the chief designer, and the manned rocket is on the string! ] 】

Jinling Daily: [......]

Intensive news came one after another, and under the bombardment of so many news, a series of related entries such as "Huaguo Manned Landing Plan", "Biosphere A", "Academician Lu" and so on were quickly sent to the hot search list.

Just a few days ago, people were surprised that Lu Zhou announced his resignation from the IMCRC's board of directors, debating where he would go next, but they didn't expect this debate to come to an end so quickly.

And, with that, such an amazing piece of news.

Huaguo will launch the manned boarding program within the month!

Academician Lu is the chief designer!

It's a bunker!

The biosphere of the Gurbantunggut Desert is an international collaboration, so it's not just Chinese researchers and journalists stationed there, but the mainstream media of various countries have been focusing on it for a few days.

As a result, just as the news of Biosphere A's initial success had just made headlines in major domestic media, the news that the Ascending Fire program would be launched within a month quickly spread to the Internet, and aroused widespread attention and discussion in the international community.

This sudden news can be said to have shocked many people.

Especially for the Americans, who had planted a big heel on Mars a few years ago, it was like encountering a thunderbolt from the sky, and they were shocked and didn't know how to react.

Twitter.

The topic quickly overtook the recent baseball league as the headline of popular searches!

In particular, the comment section of a recent tweet about an extraterrestrial planet observation by NASA was almost crowded by North American netizens who were in shock.

"The Chinese are going to land on Mars?!"

"Fack! You burn so much money every year, where do you burn it! ”

"I don't think there's any need to panic, if the Chinese are interested in Mars, just let them go, we've already gone up anyway."

"It's not reassuring, and it's a shame! When their spacecraft came to pick up our astronauts home, our NASA actually took the initiative to crash the BFS spacecraft left in Mars orbit because it was worried about the technology leaking to the Chinese! ”

“…… This is just one side of the Chinese side, and there is still controversy in it. ”

"Enough is enough! I don't think there's anything to be proud of on Mars! The key is whether they can stay on it, and if they just go and make a footprint on it, plant a flag, and then go home with a bunch of troubles like NASA, I don't think it's worth making a fuss! ”

"This is a provocation by Huaguo! We should restart the Boarding Project immediately! Rebuild 'New Virginia'! ”

The controversy continued to ferment on Twitter.

The opinions of netizens seem to be divided into two factions, one of which believes that Huaguo has mastered the technology of orbiting on Mars and fully enclosed biosphere, and it is not difficult to establish a permanent research station on Mars.

The other school of thought holds the opposite view, arguing that although China has mastered the technology to cruise in Martian orbit, it is still not easy to establish a permanent base on Mars.

The two sides were at loggerheads, and no one could convince anyone.

At the moment, it seems that the latter voice has the upper hand.

After all, as many people have seen, although Hua Guo has completed cruise flights in Martian orbit more than once and successfully returned to the Earth-Moon system, none of them have really imprinted footprints on the surface of the Martian earth.

The technical difficulty of arriving on Mars and landing on Mars is still one dimension worse after all.

Even though the Tinder project has been a phased success, the Gurbantunggut Desert is still a little more than the desperate yellow sands on Mars.

The sandstorms there can even last for an entire year, and the dust that obscures the sky will not only paralyze all solar facilities, but will also drop the temperature on the surface of Mars to an extreme number!

Even if the biosphere is fully enclosed, it is impossible to achieve the balance of the artificial ecosystem without relying on external energy inputs throughout the year, and completely relying on the internal material cycle.

Maybe Hua Guo didn't realize how bad the situation on Mars was?

Many Americans have this idea.

After all, as a citizen of the most powerful aerospace country in the last century, such a reality is too unacceptable......

The reaction of the American elite has been much more pessimistic than that of the general public.

While it is still debatable whether the Chinese will succeed in manned landings and build a permanent full-cycle colony on the surface of Mars as planned, they will not be as optimistic as ordinary melon-eaters who do not take into account the extreme climate there.

After all, it was those Chinese who brought their astronauts back from Mars in the first place.

In contrast, they were more surprised by another thing.

That is Huaguo's announcement that it will launch a manned fire plan within this month......

Although I don't know why those Chinese people made such a hasty decision, this casual attitude of going to Mars is like booking a plane ticket, which really shocked many people.

NASA's Facebook community.

Most of the people who post news in it are engineers in the aerospace field, or at least master's students and PhDs engaged in related professional studies. Almost at the same time that the comment section of NASA's latest tweet exploded, the discussion began here.

"Launch within a month? Oh, God...... Are they kidding? This kind of large-scale space exploration program with tens of billions of dollars, without a plan for more than half a year, is it a hasty decision? ”

"Maybe they were prepared many years ago...... Just like that biosphere A, they were already preparing for today's plans long before we hurriedly threw the soles of our shoes on Mars and picked up a mess to come back. ”

Shet...... I feel like our astronauts are guinea pigs. ”

"It's not just the astronauts who act as guinea pigs, I feel like the whole of NASA has become their guinea pigs. Isn't there a rumor? The black box in the New Virginia colony was not actually left on Mars with the crashed wreckage, but was taken away by them! ”

This speculation is not unfounded.

After all, there were too many doubts about the series of things that happened at that time.

However, when it comes to the last time the American astronauts of the fire program were launched, it is more interesting that at the same time that China announced the news of the fire program, Mr. Johnson, the former captain of the BFS spacecraft who was picked up from Mars by the Xiaguang, posted a rather thought-provoking tweet on his personal social media, which is difficult for many Americans to accept.

“…… I don't think anyone in all of North America knows better than I do how amazing their space technology is, and the difference between a BFS and a glow is like a sail warship and an ironclad ship. This metaphor is graphic enough, because while we were still calculating the energy on the spacecraft, their energy was already surplus enough to create a coaxial rotating gravity-like chamber! I thought it was redundant, but at the time, my jaw dropped to the ground. ”

"I think our gap is not in aerospace at all, but in some areas that are more fundamental than the broad proposition of aerospace engineering. For example, materials, such as energy...... Like controlled nuclear fusion as we all know. ”

"I have no doubt that they were able to send astronauts to Mars two years ago or even three years ago and make them feel comfortable on it. As for why they didn't do it, it was just human. The prudence of Taoism, and the respect for life itself. ”

"Maybe it's time for our president, Mr. President, to reflect on what this senseless confrontation has brought us in addition to disaster!"

Compared to others, Johnson, who has flown in both BFS and Xiaguang, can be said to be the person who knows the difference between the two best.

After all, in the whole of North America, apart from him, I am afraid that there is only another astronaut who is still awake who has felt the shock that penetrates deep into the soul.

Within an hour of the tweet, the tweet received a considerable number of retweets, prompting reflection among many Americans who were increasingly skeptical about the need for the space race to continue.

Of course, even so, there is still no shortage of people who are arrogant.

For example, Philgoethe, a distinguished engineer at NASA, one of the leaders of the Deep Space Gate program, and a professor of aerospace engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in strong terms when interviewed by the media.

"This is a sloppy space program!"

"I believe that they have achieved some degree of superiority in space technology, but I still cannot see any hope of success in their sloppy arrangement!"

"If they really think about the lives of their astronauts and are still in awe of life, then it's better to rethink the launch plan and spend a few months studying the launch plan."

"Don't take arrogance for courage, or it will be the most laughable tragedy in human history!"

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