The launch site is located at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the east coast of the United States, where the Apollo spacecraft, Skylab, unmanned planets and interplanetary probes, and various civilian military satellites have been launched. The low latitude of 28.5° makes full use of the additional speed generated by the Earth's rotation, helping the aircraft to escape the Earth's gravity and enter space.

The X-39A is a space-free/human/machine, the prototype of which is the X-37B produced by Boeing's Mirage Factory, this air killer originally planned for future space wars has been upgraded three times, and its size and travel have increased by an order of magnitude. The specific parameters are as follows:

First flight: April 2025 (now October 2035).

R&D Status: Testing, Practice Phase.

Responsible party: NASA/Department of Defense.

Bureau of Research Projects: (X-39A).

Capacity: 2.

Prototype: X-37B.

Driver: None.

Length: 15.5 meters.

Wingspan: 7.5 meters.

Height: 4.9 m.

Take-off weight: 20.99 tons.

Engine: hybrid, rocket engine + nuclear fission engine.

Power source: gallium arsenide solar cells and lithium batteries.

Payload: 2227 kg.

Flight Orbit: Low Earth orbit or the orbit of other planets in the solar system.

Maximum flight speed: 13.2 km/s.

Maximum flight range: 58 million km (a single flight is possible when Mars is at perigee).

Maximum battery life: 570 days.

NBC, a commercial television company founded in 1926 and acquired by General Motors, won the top bid from major broadcasters for the exclusive rights to the launch.

The announcer was a guy with a greasy face, and after proudly verbosing the size and parameters of the aircraft (in fact, these data are found on some veteran military websites), he finally switched the TV screen to the launch site. However, the photographer is very picky, the lens is limited to a small piece of the launch frame, and the other facilities of the space center do not even give the audience the corner of the eye.

However, it has come a long way compared to the past. Since the abolition of the "Wolf Clause" that banned non-NATO media from entering the space center, Chinese and Russian journalists can finally be seen at the launch site, and this is the first time that humanity has faced a global crisis, and the harsh regulations on foreign journalists have been loosened a lot.

After the announcer introduced the aircraft, he began to introduce the nuclear bomb yield and the principle of "push away". In his words, the United States has become the savior of the world, but in fact, the entire cost of this plan is borne by the member states of the United Nations, and some details of the plan have been agreed upon by the top scientists sent by the member states.

A quarter of an hour before launch, the UN Secretary-General appeared on television, with a blue-gray meteorite rolling irregularly in pitch-black space - a real-time image of 2024GY48 taken by a radio telescope.

"Today, 10 billion pairs of eyes around the world are focused on this stone, which in itself is a step forward. 65 million years ago, a stone like this also destroyed the dinosaurs. Today history repeats itself, but it does not repeat itself. ”

"Today, all the countries of the world, developed, developing, rich and poor, friendly and divided, have united for the first time in history to jointly deal with the test of the universe on the earth, which can also be said to be the only meaningful thing that this disaster has brought us."

"It is the trend of history for mankind to move from drinking blood to science, from barbarism to civilization, from differences to unity, and this is the only choice that is in line with the long-term interests of all countries in the world. It is a good start and practice for countries around the world to work together to deal with a crisis. ”

"I believe that as long as the people of the world // unite and all humanity works together, we will have the power to resolve this crisis."

At the end of the UN Secretary-General's pre-launch speech, the television camera again cuts to the launch pad of the space center.

The fuselage of the aircraft is like a sturdy adult killer whale, with sharp flanks and thin backs, standing vertically in the clamp formed by the launch frame, and the main control computer of the control center starts the countdown to launch. Ten seconds later, the clamp opened, the majestic flames of the tail erupted, thick smoke rolled up from the ground, and a whale made of titanium alloy rose into the air and slowly rose into the air.

Before leaving the atmosphere, the X-39A will be powered by a chemical engine, which takes into account the contamination of the atmosphere by nuclear fission radiation. After crossing the atmosphere into space, the chemical energy is extinguished and the nuclear power generator is activated, and this drive will continue until the nuclear bomb explodes.

Now, the X-39A has entered the radio monitoring phase, and observatories around the world have aimed their telescopes at this wonder of the world. The event will also be covered 24 hours a day by the science channels of the national television stations. According to calculations, the non-// person // machine will meet 15GY2024 in 48 days.

At the same time, the anomaly on Mars has gotten worse. Since the Curiosity rover discovered the seismic waves of the Hourglass Sea, the rover control center took action immediately. The Curiosity was not far from the scene, and the operator immediately remotely controlled it to the Hourglass Sea, but just as the jump car was about to arrive at the scene, the contact signal was suddenly cut off, and the Earth lost all contact with it. There are only two possibilities for this to happen: the battery bursts, and the main and auxiliary batteries are scrapped at the same time; or damaged by man-made or natural disasters;

At this time, there was indeed a human site on Mars, but this site called "Outpost" was very small, with only seven or eight scientists who settled on Mars for the first time. The only way to find out what happened was to notify the research station to send someone to the site to investigate.

Due to the proximity of the Hourglass Sea to the polar regions of Mars, it is half a planet away from the "outpost" station near the equator, and the only means of transportation for the expedition personnel is the kind of mountain bikes with huge front wheels. The surface of Mars is in rough condition, and from time to time there are towering stone forests blocking the way, so the Earth received the feedback signal a day later.

The receiver excitedly opened the signal channel, and at first even stood up, but soon fell back into the leather chair, and he reported to the center director that the scientist who first arrived at the center of the Hourglass Sea was missing, and even the four-wheeled mountain bike was missing.

"He went alone?" The supervisor asked.

"That's not it, two people went, and one of them came back, but"

"Don't look like a, say it!"

"The person who came back had amnesia, and he couldn't remember anything about what happened after the departure."

"Amnesia? What the hell" the supervisor shoved the receiver away and headed towards the control room.