"In fact, this is a Mars mission with Europa Space Agency, a 'Mars sample return' program, which is divided into three phases and spans ten years!"

It's a great and tedious mission to Mars, and Jim is trying to keep it as simple as possible given the professions and specialties here.

"The Perseverance rover, which landed on the surface of Mars in February, is just the first step, and it will carry out Mars sample collection missions according to the 'site caching' strategy in parallel with its roving exploration mission."

"It will carry 43 sample tubes in the shape of small flashlights, which will be loaded with carefully selected samples of Martian rock and gravel, and when sealed, they will not be contaminated in any way."

"The entire collection mission will last for several years, with some of the tubes stored in Perseverance and others in its path, at intervals to spread the risk."

"Three Mars transfer windows, that is, six and a half years later, we will launch a probe that can take off from the surface of Mars and enter orbit, land near the Perseverance landing site, and release a mini transfer vehicle with a mass of about 130kg and the size of a coffee table. ”

"The cart does not carry scientific instruments, and its job is to collect the sample tubes that Perseverance has stored along the way, and then load them into the probe's miniature rocket, and the collection process is expected to take nearly six months."

"If Perseverance is still working, it can also transport the remaining sample tubes into the small rocket, so that the risk is separated, and if one vehicle strikes, there is another vehicle working."

"After another Mars window, that is, two years and two months later, we will launch a device that can return from Mars to Mars orbit, the mini rocket will lift off, dock with the return device, and send the sample tube into the protective cover of the returner, and the final sample weight will be between 600~800 grams."

"This protective cover, like the matryoshka doll, has four layers of protection to ensure that the Martian samples do not leak and contaminate the Earth, and at the same time, they will not be contaminated by the Earth. After the handover is completed, the mini-rocket separates from the re-entry device, and the re-entry vehicle flies to Earth. ”

"After entering the Earth's orbit, there are actually two options, one is to land directly in the Western Desert and then send it to the ground laboratory for research, and the other is to be grabbed by the International Space Station and use the space station as a 'firewall' to conduct research directly in the space station."

"It's just that in 10 years, I don't know what the state of the ISS will be, so the last step has not yet been decided."

Jim gave a brief overview of the mission, and as soon as he paused, Kuna spoke, "Director Jim, it's not that I want to interrupt you, it's not that I don't understand. ”

"I just want to remind you that we don't have much time, Mr. President is waking up, don't talk about things in ten years, we can't wait for ten years, can you just talk about your plan?"

“……”

Jim was stunned when he heard this, and then looked at the others, all of them had a wide-eyed expression.

"Shet, you laymen, he just doesn't understand."

"Okay, I'll keep it simple."

He waved his hand helplessly.

In fact, he is the director of the aerospace agency who understood Wang's airborne arrival, and he is not a space system himself, he first flew fighter jets on aircraft carriers, and later became a member of the House of Representatives in politics, and was finally nominated by Wang to be the director of the Aerospace Agency.

But in order to control the space agency, in order to be able to talk to those technical bigwigs and get support, he learned a lot, so now in this conference room, in a bunch of politicians, soldiers, secret agents, clerks, he has become an expert.

"To put it simply, we can shorten the time from ten years to three and a half years, and Perseverance will not be on long-distance cruises, but will only be sampling at close range."

"The next Mars window launches two rockets at once, launches the mini-rocket and the re-entry device together, they fly for seven months, the small rocket lands to transport the sample to orbit, and then docks and returns."

"In this way, in three and a half years, we will have a sample of Mars, the only one in the world!"

"I can guarantee that there will be no Mars plan for Tianxia in a short period of time, according to their steady and steady character, they will stay on the moon for a long time, and we can definitely become the first country in the world to get a Mars sample."

After hearing this plan, Kuna was overjoyed, "Oh, this is good, Jim, I want this." ”

"Okay," Jim nodded, turned his head and said, "Because the time is shortened, there are some key technologies here that need to be solved urgently, including the non-traditional Earthfire Homan transfer flight, extraterrestrial planet sample collection and preservation, sterilization and planetary protection, the first Mars launch into orbit, sample Mars orbit handover, ......"

Halfway through his speech, he noticed that everyone was looking at him dumbly, so he couldn't continue to talk about it anymore, so he summed it up.

"Gotta add money!"

"Well," said Kuna, "as long as he can get this first place, Mr. President will definitely be able to convince Congress." ”

"Also, the return to the moon program cannot be stopped, and even accelerated, we want to send the first woman to the moon, which is also very important, the question of funding, I think Mr. President can convince those women congressmen and women in the country."

"Okay, as long as the money is in place and the president and Congress support it, then the plan is fine."

Jim is calm on the surface, but ecstatic on the inside, because this is a good opportunity to increase his power and make money.

After understanding that the king woke up, Kuna told him about it, and he was not blamed, but was praised.

In Wang's view, he cared about the moon before, and just wanted to make some merit from it, and when he wrote history in the future, he would have a few more names, and it was best to call himself "the best president".

Now that he has a better plan, and is absolutely unique in the world, he certainly wants to support it.

With this new Mars plan, the return to the moon plan in his mind of course has to be a little backward, what is the first woman to go to the moon, he doesn't care, because a certain woman has competed with him for the position of president, so he is quite uninterested in women.

But if it allows him to get more money from Congress and more women to support him, he is willing to do it.

In fact, he most wanted to amend the constitution to remove the rule that the president can only serve two terms, and then serve two or three consecutive terms, preferably becoming the first president in Merriken's history to serve five consecutive terms.

If the need arises, he can immediately put a new label on himself.

With a new goal, he went to Congress with great courage to ask for money, and this request was two days.

No way, it's a cumbersome process.

Not only is it tedious, but there are also bad guys making trouble!

The people who stop him are all bad people!

Two days later, his seventh meeting began, and the eyes of the world were once again focused on Tianxia's Primordial Space Launch Center.

Then through the large screen of the launch center, focus on the moon.

To be precise, it focused on the lunar surface laboratory of Yuegong-2.

During the live broadcast, the camera on Yuegong-2 can already see the moon clearly, and it is in the final phase of circumnavigating the moon.

And because Yuegong-2 is super huge, the installed antenna power is also large, which makes the live broadcast picture have a qualitative leap.

The moon back signal of this live broadcast is still supported by Queqiao satellite.

Interestingly, a foreign lunar exploration satellite accidentally took photos of Yuegong-2, and they also went viral on the Internet, which increased the visibility of this mission.

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