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"These damn media don't even want their faces for the sake of clicks! It should be regulated! "Charles. Bol angrily threw the "New York Times" in his hand on the table, just thinking about the recent news made his face red, hot and embarrassed, and NASA has not shared the news on the official self-media Instagram recently.

Because I don't dare, everyone knows about the shooting of the first bird, this mutual spraying incident can be said that NASA is the source of everything, just look at NASA's crazy 7 million followers on Instagram, this should be good news, but in this time period, even NASA doesn't dare to go out.

Are there still fewer companies and institutions that lie down guns?

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

"Hell good! You like to lose face, don't you? Don't think it's bad enough? When Charles heard the secretary's words, he was immediately angry.

"In fact, we can make good use of this wave of fans, as long as the wind passes." The secretary laughed.

"Like ......," Charles said, glancing at her.

Charles's secretary said eloquently: "We haven't released the latest news on Instagram for a long time, and with the help of this wave of fans, we can publish some of our news feeds from time to time, such as our astronauts on the 'Tianzhou' can broadcast their daily activities in space on YouTube and the like." NASA can do something more people-friendly, although we are a government-based scientific research institution, but we also need to keep pace with the times, be more people-friendly, at least in the application for funding can also provide some help, support is the key. ”

Charles, who gradually calmed down, suddenly realized, "It's true, Xlous company has done a very good job in this regard, and some time ago it also released a video of the test flight, this company has never missed the slightest opportunity to attract fans, although he doesn't need support 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 deal with, NASA's image is very important, understand? For the sake of funding! ”

"Yes, sir, for the sake of money! Also, sir, don't forget the meeting in ten minutes. The secretary smiled sexily, gestured at his wrist, and left Bol's office.

Charles retreated from a trace of depression in his heart, and then came to the conference room, where the attendees were basically all there. Musk was among them, along with heads from Alphabet and Bigelow Aerospace, and the conference room was attended by more than two dozen people, mostly technology engineers or astrophysicists.

The people here are the top elite in the United States, and they are all gathered here to discuss the same topic - landing on Mars.

"The plans have changed, and Xlous recently announced that they are going to build a large space station on Mars, the purpose is unknown, but this information is key for us." Charles. Bol came to the meeting and looked around at everyone, and said: "Landing on Mars is indeed the main purpose of the political mission, but if we think so now, we will lose!" ”

Musk, who was sitting next to him, said in a deep voice: "Xlous is going 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 the title of the first landing on Mars, although it is a huge political victory, 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 simply a loss to grandma's family! ”

"But what can be on Mars? And what can be commercialized? The other said puzzled.

Charles glanced at the other party, "Then how do you explain that Xlous is going to operate a kiloton super space station in orbit around Mars?" Still in operation for at least 25 years or so? ”

Charles's rhetorical question left the other party speechless.

"We don't know what treasures are on Mars, but Xlous may know, otherwise why would Ren Hong make the 'Twin Plan' at any cost? Do you really think that he has too much money to burn? ”

"I think it's important to understand Xlous' motivations, it's very important!" Someone said again.

"This kind of thing is not something we should worry about, we are not intelligence professionals, and the CIA has begun to intervene." Charles looked around at everyone and said: "What we have to do is to get our job done, although we don't know what Xlous has taken a fancy to Mars, but at least it has given us a very crucial message, that is, there must be treasures on Mars, and we can't wait until the CIA gets reliable information to start strategizing, by then it is too late." ”

"What do you mean, Mr. Bol?" Another NASA agent asked curiously.

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

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

"Mars, there must be treasures, we don't know, but xlous knows treasures!" Charles said with great certainty at the end.

At this time, one of the scientists in the audience left his seat and walked to the large crystal screen on the wall of the front desk of the conference, on which a map of the distribution of the solar system appeared, and he said: "Mr. Charles, it is almost impossible to complete the task of landing on Mars and establishing a surface outpost base at the same time. Three and a half months later, Mars is about to enter the closest distance to the Earth, this is the golden launch window, if according to Mr. Charles's requirements, we want to build an outpost base, then it means that the whole plan needs to be reformulated, we need to send the required facilities of the outpost base into space, during this time we have missed this golden launch window period, if we want to catch up with Mars, we need to carry more fuel, and the increase in the materials required for the outpost base means that we need more propulsion fuel, greater thrust, Higher investment, but basically impossible......"

With that, the scientist looked back at Charles, "I know it's urgent, but ...... You can only take it one step at a time, you can't be sloppy, this is space activity! ”

"Damn it!" Charles scolded in a low voice, he also knew that this was an indisputable fact, if you are not in a hurry, Mars will not wait for you, and it will be away every second.

The discussion reached an impasse for a while.

Elon, who hadn't spoken for a long time. Musk looked at the star map on the home screen, and when everyone was silent, his eyes suddenly lit up, staring at the screen and saying with a little excitement: "I think it's okay!" ”

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… (To be continued.) )