"Damn, these designs don't have these cascading errors even if you change them even a little bit."

Immediately after the agreement was reached, NACA obtained raw data from the lander's black box from the Aviation Development Commission, and because they knew more about the Blue Moon, they were able to confirm the cause of the accident more quickly.

First of all, it can be confirmed that it is the same as the one guessed by the Aviation Development Commission, which is due to a series of errors caused by the unreasonable design of the inner and outer structures, resulting in a small fault that caused a false alarm in the system and a large-scale crash in the control terminal.

While this isn't an easy problem to solve, knowing where the problem is can lead to immediate improvement.

And Jeff Bezos, who was distraught at NACA headquarters, finally put his mind at ease for the time being, and Lockheed Martin became nervous instead.

The HLS lander project was led by Blue Origin as the original contractor and responsible for the systems engineering, but many subsystems were also distributed to other vendors.

Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Dreber were all involved, and Lockheed Martin was responsible for the structural design and personnel compartment that went wrong, and although Blue Origin was primarily responsible, the other half had to be put on Lockheed's head.

Blue Origin has been scolded miserably these days, and when Bezos was being heard, there were marchers calling for "punishing the murderer Jeff" every day, and the failure of Blue Origin even led to a drop in Amazon's stock price.

However, Claire Borden is not at all easy, and he, the director of NACA, must be responsible for any failure in the link, and Congress cannot wait to impeach him.

His downfall is inevitable, and the next NACA Director has been loosely identified as another Deputy Director, Robert Lightford.

Robert Lightford previously worked at the Stennis Space Center, mainly dealing with the Space Shuttle, which may also be the reason for the favor.

Now he's already handing over work with Claire.

"Robert, Blue Moon had to conduct an in-depth investigation, and although the mechanical design was the direct cause, we found that the rest of the emergency systems failed to activate after the engine was illegally stopped, which indicates that there was also a big problem with the controls, and the whole project was actually very imperfect."

Robert: "The accident investigation team has been authorized by Congress, and I think the Blue Moon and the SLS are probably going to be grounded for a year, and I'm going to use that time to refine the Blue Moon and the whole system, and that's enough time to stabilize." ”

He had been overseeing the SLS during Project Artemis, but the SLS's booster had also malfunctioned, so Claire was still worried overall.

Claire trusts her colleagues, but once it is linked to the mission of the presidential palace, there are too many additional factors, and if the Artemis plan is completed step by step, it will definitely not have such a serious accident.

But it won't work without speeding it up, and now Congress is beginning to question whether the whole of NACA is worth spending so much.

His intention was to put all the blame on his own mismanagement, or else it would be a serious blow to the voice and cohesion of the entire NACA if Congress launched an investigation.

"Robert, Artemis II's investigation is only a small part, and I'm afraid it will only be a secondary target after you take office."

"What do you mean...... Mars? ”

Claire nodded solemnly, according to the latest news, the An-1250 has arrived at the Xinyuan base again, either to transport the space shuttle or to transport the super-large module, and it is definitely to continue the construction task of the Advance.

It should be impossible to let the Advance rally set off for Mars in 2018, and it must operate in space stably for at least one year, and only after being thoroughly familiar with it can it carry out space travel for more than a year.

No one knows the optimal design of the low-gravity space station, and no one knows how to control the 1,500-ton space station after it rotates.

However, in the next window of 2020, the Endeavor will definitely meet the flight conditions, but if you take into account the exploration and construction in the early stage, it is more appropriate for the spacecraft to depart in 2022.

Be conservative and follow the schedule in 2022 and be radical in 2020, this is what Claire thinks is the timetable for Huaguo's fire.

After he told these speculations, Robert's face also became solemn.

That is, he has a maximum of five years, a minimum of three years, and he must also have NACA launch the Mars spacecraft at one of those two points in time.

In the meantime, I have to take a moment to complete the moon landing as soon as possible and engage in the construction of the moon by the way, and the joy brought by the promotion to the director of the bureau was still a little lost in my heart.

If he had been given 10 years to accomplish this, he would have been ambitious, but now he is feeling the pressure.

But he still held on to the last shred of luck and asked:

"Maybe we'll give up the competition for ...... time being"

"Definitely not." Claire shook her head resolutely:

"John is about to pass the Ares program, and will make a huge investment in the entire space industry for about 10 years, and it is likely that NACA will receive more funding than the Cold War."

"How do you know?"

"After I resign, I will join John's staff team, and I will be involved in developing some of the content."

Robert "......"

……

"Citizens of Aramco, citizens of China on the other side of the ocean, citizens of the world.

At the outset, on behalf of the Aramco government, I would like to congratulate you on your achievements and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your efforts to keep the two Artemis 2 astronauts alive.

Welcome to becoming the second country after Aramco to achieve a manned landing on the moon, which is a remarkable second step that will take humanity forward again......"

On the lawn of the presidential palace, John read the manuscript with a blank face, and his voice was stiffer than reading it to Google Translate.

Countries around the world have publicly congratulated the two countries that have completed and partially completed the moon landing, and of course Aramco cannot be regarded as not seeing it, the space race does not exist in the media, and the world is still harmonious and stable on the surface.

John pinched his nose and made a congratulatory speech, which was supposed to be the job of secretary of state, but Piot had been kicked out, and it would be some time before Jack Sullivan could be hired.

After the last paragraph of his congratulatory speech, John paused, and then picked up the second manuscript:

"The moon is only a small step in the conquest of space, it is only a part of the edge of our cradle, we must touch it, only by grasping it can we get up and walk out of the cradle;

We have encountered some difficulties in front of us, but we are never afraid, courage and curiosity urge us to constantly fall and get back up, the whole Artemis project is still firmly moving forward, we will definitely make the moon a part of human society in the next very short time.

In the solar system in which we live, there are countless stars in the cantilever of Orion, in the Milky Way, and in the universe.

Our footsteps will not stop at the moon, but go higher and farther.

The Moon has no atmosphere, it is just a satellite of the Earth, which is destined not to become a second home for mankind, but just a small resting point.

Aramco will immediately launch a manned landing program on Mars, and we will send humans safely to Mars by 2025 and establish a long-term living Mars base that will become the seed of civilization.

We are willing to give everything for it, all for space, all for the future of mankind, and never stop. ”

(End of chapter)