Chapter 44: To Mars Again

With the efforts of Liu Guanguan and others, soon, the vehicle to Mars was made.

Even in the space industry, rumors of the end of the world are so loud that many rocket manufacturing has stopped.

After all, whether humans can land on Mars and whether there are Martians is the root of the whole incident, and if it is finally confirmed that these are lies, then many of the words of BIPU will be a question mark.

Money is easy to do, and the money from crowdfunding is enough to build flying machines and carry out flight missions.

A private aerospace company called Gonggong undertook this special task.

Speaking of which, their feelings are very complicated, they are also private aerospace companies, how did they let BIPU take the lead, which made them very passive, and subconsciously, they hoped that the landing of BIU was not successful.

The time is tight and the task is heavy, and a lot of work has made way for the Mars rover, and the work is progressing rapidly, and it will be completed in less than half a month.

On the question of whether or not to load weapons, two different opinions have emerged.

Some people say that we have already discovered, let's just say that we have discovered the Martians, so it is necessary to load some weapons, more sophisticated weapons, such as electromagnetic guns, particle weapons, etc., which can defend oneself and deal with the Martians.

Another point of view is that since the Martians are more than 4,500 years more advanced than the earthlings, then all weapons are pediatric for them. What's more, the second time we launched a vehicle to Mars, it crashed because it was carrying weapons, is it a warning from the Martians?

They believe that since they went to Mars for peace, they simply did not bring any weapons, of course, very conventional weapons, such as astronauts' S guns, were to be carried.

Because everyone knows that astronauts carry guns, not against aliens.

The astronaut's gun is an extremely ordinary gun.

Readers may be confused as to why astronauts carry S-guns when they go to space, if they don't need them.

What is an S gun for?

Some even say that guns are brought to deal with aliens, or, in desperate moments, astronauts cut themselves off.

That's not true.

If you encounter aliens, an ordinary gun is afraid that it will not come in handy.

The S gun is less powerful and has an effective range of 50 meters. Maybe the S gun in our hands is, in the eyes of aliens, equivalent to an adult seeing a toy water gun in the hands of a child.

What's more, the space environment is different from the Earth environment, and after the shot, the astronaut himself will roll and move due to recoil, which is quite dangerous.

So, obviously, this S-gun is not intended to deal with Martians on Mars.

The reason is that on March 18, 1965, the Soviet Union launched the Ascent 2 manned spacecraft, and the cosmonauts on the mission were Beryaev and Leonov.

In space, Leonov stepped out of the spacecraft and was active in space for 24 minutes, achieving the world's first spacewalk.

After 26 hours and 2 minutes in space, the spacecraft returned. But the final landing place was in the primeval forests of Siberia, thousands of kilometers away from the intended location.

While waiting for rescue, a pack of wolves came, and the astronauts avoided the attack of the beast precisely because they had a gun in their hands.

In fact, guns are not used against aliens, but for special situations

Until 2019, the Russian Aerospace Nation Group said that in 2021, the gun could again be included in the list of emergency equipment for Russian cosmonauts.

In addition to their guns, the astronauts carried many survival supplies, including radio navigation stations, flashing lights, folding knives, life rafts, and more.

They are also equipped with specialized radio stations, first aid kits, diving suits and other items, sabers, space gloves, oxygen bags, urine bags, aviation watches, and much more.

So, the space center definitely set off this time, without any weapons.

The astronauts who set off were retired astronauts, 51-year-old Zhou Zhipeng, and 39-year-old female astronaut Chen Hong.

The two had experience with moon landings.

However, everyone was puzzled that there was no insurance company involved in such a big project as landing on Mars.

Maybe it was the second flight to Mars that scared them. After all, this trip to Mars feels dangerous.

If they think it's an insurance thing, they'll get involved. Back then, the insurance company provided 5 million yuan of life insurance for China's first astronaut Yang Liwei.

In addition, they provided up to 13.908 million yuan of life insurance for all selected astronauts, their spouses and children, as well as astronaut experts.

For such a major event as going to Mars, the insurance company hesitated, after all, the lessons from the past are still vivid.

Also, whether the first landing on Mars was successful or not is still debatable!

History often has striking similarities! It is said that when the moon landed, it was also the insurance company that refused to participate in the insurance for the astronauts.

In order to prevent not being able to return to Earth, the landers signed a bunch of envelopes before landing on the moon, and then asked their relatives and friends to go to the post office to get stamped on the day they landed on the moon, so as to earn a sum of money.

There is no way, capital is profit-seeking.

Marx said that as soon as there is a proper profit, capital will be very bold. As long as there is a 10% profit, it will be used everywhere.

If you have 20%, it will be lively.

There are 50% of them, which will cause positive risk-taking.

100 per cent, it will make people defy all laws.

300% will make people not afraid of sin, or even the danger of hanging.

In the face of all the attention, people are full of various moods, watching the third take-off of the vehicle to Mars.

This time there were no explosions, everything went well.

After 15 days of flying, Zhou Zhipeng and Chen Hong's spacecraft has stayed 20 kilometers above Mars.

We discovered the first landing on Mars, Superfast, which is anchored in the Martian Utopia Plain. The spacecraft sent back the first message near Mars.

The discovery of Superfast anchored on the surface of Mars proves that their landing was a success.

Is there anything unusual in the sky? The Earth Space Base asked.

Zhou Zhipeng and the others looked at the huge surface of Mars, which was slightly red in the yellow, and it was vague and endless, similar to the desert of the earth.

There are no anomalies. Zhou Zhipeng said to the base.

No, do you see any Martians? Clear instructions were given from the base.

No, nothing. Zhou Zhipeng said.

You contact the Super Fast to see if they respond. The Earth Space Base said again.

Contacted, no response. They kept tapping the buttons on the aircraft.

You landed next to the Superfast. The base issued instructions.

Good! We landed. Zhou Zhipeng looked at the chaotic sky and the long yellow sand again, carefully piloted the spaceship, and approached the "Super Express".

Due to the impact of the sandstorm, the "Super Express" has been covered with a layer of yellow sand, which looks a little yellow. But the picture they imagined, the owner of the "Super Express" coming out to greet them, did not appear.

Suddenly, the earth base received a noisy sound, and Chen Hong was shouting: God, what is that?

After that, the communication was completely interrupted.