For the Chinese academic community, June is the time when the preliminary list of academicians is announced.

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

Tens of millions of kilometers away from the Earth, in deep space, a silver-white spaceship slowly advanced.

Although it is as slow as a snail crawling against the backdrop of the distant sun and the nearby fiery red planet, it is actually traveling at nearly four kilometers per second.

If it had been four days earlier, it had been faster after nearly 90 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's lips curled into a triumphant smile.

"Mars! God, we're finally here! ”

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

“…… It's so beautiful! ”

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

Now, after a long period of active deceleration, the BFR manned spacecraft, called Golden Heart, has finally managed to approach the top of the Martian atmosphere after several complex orbit changes.

This was the end of their journey.

It will also be the starting point of human civilization towards the starry sky!

"When are we landing?" Glancing out the window at the planet, Tevi muttered quietly, "I always feel like I'm floating up there." ”

Unlike Johnson, who dreamed of becoming Columbus, and even more different from Jones, who ran to sign up for Project Ares simply because he was out of love, he only came here to avoid debt.

As for why you came to Mars to hide from debt......

There is no reason, he never has a plan.

Maybe he saw an advertisement for Space-X when he was drunk one day, and then filled out the form with the mentality of giving it a try, but when he was about to forget about it, someone suddenly called him and told him that he had been selected.

To be honest, he thought it was a scam call at first, after all, he really didn't expect them to really find a black man to come to this spaceship, and he chose to be uneducated and only played rugby.

But fortunately, NASA did not ask him to do anything complicated, but only trained him in some basic knowledge that colonists must understand, and when it comes to specific professional issues, Johnson, a former marine, will be responsible for completing them.

Unlike him and Jones, the "captain" of the Golden Heart, an astronaut who has been carefully selected and professionally trained, has been under contract with Space-X since several years ago.

It is said that at that time, there was no Ares program, and China had not yet begun to carry out manned landing on the moon, and the colonization of Mars was purely Space-X's own plan......

"Landing right away!" Leaving the porthole, Johnson floated to the side of his seat, looked at the two teammates standing in the cabin and clapped his hands, "Okay boys...... And ladies, our future new home is just around the corner. The current orbital altitude is 316.7 kilometers, and the target airspace will be reached in 5 minutes! Please put on a Mars spacesuit, connect to the environmental control health protection system, and give me an OK gesture when you're ready! ”

Nervously inserting the tube of the environmental control health protection system under the seat, Tai Wei fixed himself with the seat belt, looked left and right, and asked nervously, "How long will we live here?" ”

Johnson smiled heartily and said, "If it's fast, it's about four or five years!" After the two-round launch window, there will be people who will 'change shifts' with us. Of course, maybe for a lifetime, I still love it. The scenery here is like Las Vegas, with a long stretch of yellow sand as far as the eye can see. ”

Tevi couldn't help but complain: "Las Vegas is not so desolate!" ”

"Then we're going to build it a little bit like that...... Guys, get ready to land! The in-cabin environmental control and health protection system was activated, 3, 2, 1...... Ignition! ”

"New World, here we come!"

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

As a violent tremor came from the seat underneath, they quickly saw outside the porthole that the dome-long fusiform flying machine was thrown behind them, getting farther and farther away from them.

Feeling the pull of gravity, Tevi cursed "Shet" in a disturbed whisper, and Johnson, who was sitting in the driver's seat, gritted his teeth, but his face was full of excitement.

Jones, who was also sitting in the cockpit, had a tense expression, his eyes looking around uneasily, and silently praying in his heart for the safety of this trip.

Whatever their mood, whatever their motivations, they have taken the first step towards Mars.

As for what to do next, only God can answer them......

……

Even at the point of proximity, Mars is separated by thousands of kilometers from Earth.

It would take at least three minutes to send an email from here to Earth. Therefore, since entering the Martian gravitational system, it has been difficult for NASA's ground command center to accurately track the path of the Golden Heart and provide full navigation.

However, although the three-minute delay brought considerable difficulty to the command, it did not prevent the Earth from learning of the successful landing of the Golden Heart......

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 Hangke and Aerospace have set up offices here, but even the Space Administration has almost moved the two departments from Shangjing here.

At this moment, in the conference room on the first floor of the command tower of the launch center, an emergency report meeting is underway.

Chen Yunhai, deputy director of the Space Administration and director of the Organization Department of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee, who was standing at the conference table and holding a report in his hand, looked grim at the moment and said meticulously.

“…… Thirty-five minutes ago, we received a message from the Qianzhou Radio Astronomy Observatory that an artificial electromagnetic signal communication signal was transmitted from the azimuth of Mars through active space signal diagnosis and identification, and the message transmission time was 10 minutes. ”

Placing the report on the table, he looked around the conference table, paused, and continued.

"Here is the report of the FAST project team, and according to their speculation, the Golden Heart should be successfully orbited around Mars!"

Whispers rang out at the conference table.

Many people turned their attention to Lu Zhou, who was sitting at the other end of the conference table, staring at the laptop on the table, but unfortunately, Lu Zhou's face did not change much.

Academician Yuan Huanmin, chief engineer of Hangke Group, was silent for a while and spoke.

"Have they already started landing?"

"It's not certain yet, but if they have successfully entered orbit, the landing will probably not be very difficult."

Although it is the first time that a person has been sent to Mars, this is not the first time NASA has visited Mars. Since Corsair 1, the U.S. space 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 program, it is unlikely that it will be on the ring of Mars.

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

"It's not certain at this time, we're confirming the accuracy of the message......"

"No need."

Lu Zhou, who was sitting in the corner of the conference table and had been staring at his laptop without speaking, suddenly spoke.

“…… They should have succeeded, and the message captured by the FAST project team just now is probably the video of the launch of the Golden Heart to NASA's ground command center. ”

Chen Yunhai was slightly stunned, pushed down his glasses and asked.

"How do you know ......"

Without much explanation, Lu Zhou turned the laptop in a circle and showed the content in the video.

"Because just a dozen seconds ago, they had already updated the video on YouTube."