Interstellar Energy Tycoon

A lot of pressure.

The Iron Horse has been under a lot of pressure lately.

His baby face couldn't smile anymore.

Severe insomnia at night, no interest in making little gourd babies.

I often hold meetings day and night to discuss countermeasures, and I am so anxious that my hair starts to fall out.

What he fears the most is that he doesn't want to face the news media and reporters, doesn't want to speak in front of the interview microphone, let alone hear questions that make him feel embarrassed and angry.

"Steel Horse, isn't your Space company the most advanced aerospace technology company? Why did the Chinese successfully land on the moon instead of us."

"Space's recyclable rockets have lower cost, stronger carrying capacity, and the most launches per year. Why can they only operate near the blue star instead of going to the moon to establish a base."

"Steel Horse, what do you think of the 45% drop in Space's stock price in more than half a month?"

"What's wrong with Space's rocket that we can't do anything about landing on the moon?"

"When will the reliability of the starship rocket be improved? When the reliability of this rocket is improved, will the moon still have our share?"

"Steel Horse, why can't you reduce the time you spend bragging and showing your face in the media and use it to improve the quality of the rocket? Are you competent enough for your own job?"

Faced with these questions, Iron Horse looked ugly and refused to answer or pay attention.

But time passed day by day.

The "Guanghan Palace" lunar base of the Chinese people is being built and improved day by day, and the possibility of catching up is getting lower and lower.

what to do?

What should be done to deal with it.

In the face of increasing pressure from external public opinion, the company's stock price is still falling.

Iron Horse had to convene a group of technical leaders and held a meeting to discuss a solution.

"The company's stock can't go down anymore. Now that things are up, we can only take a risky approach and launch another starship spacecraft as quickly as possible to send our astronauts to the moon." Steel Ma said with red eyes and a haggard face.

"But the success rate of our starship rocket launch is less than 30%."

The expert frowned and said: "Even if the launch is successful and sent to orbit around the moon, the reliability of our starship spacecraft is also not high. There is only a 50% probability that it will land on the surface of the moon smoothly. The overall success rate is less than 15%. %, for the astronauts, once the launch fails, they will not be able to return to the Azure Star, and the possibility of death is very high, we cannot make fun of their lives.”

"Yes, there is no astronaut who is willing to accept such a high-risk mission. In addition, we don't have any bases on the moon. We have successfully launched the starship spacecraft to the moon, relying on the supplies in the spacecraft alone, It’s not enough to set up a tent camp. I don’t know if I can survive for three days? If this launch mission is a one-way ticket, it does not consider sending astronauts back. The starship spacecraft can only carry about ten tons of supplies, allowing 7 Astronauts can survive on the surface of the moon for half a year at most, and if they don’t get follow-up supplies during this period, they will still go and never return.”

"Let's build a lunar base first. Since the Greenwich Crater at the South Pole has been occupied by the Chinese, we can only go to the North Pole of the Moon. First, build a base of our own at the Plato Crater at the North Pole, and then proceed to the next step. "

"We can use the Falcon rocket with a lower carrying capacity to send individual 'packages' of materials to the Plato Pit. However, as long as fifty missions are launched, filled with water, compressed biscuits, canned food and other easy-to-preserve things, it is still possible to build an extremely simple moon base.” The expert said.

"No, this kind of moon base like a homeless tent will be ridiculed by the whole world! It will only let Hua Guo win easily. If such a moon base is built, it is better not to build it. If you want to build it, you must build it. Compared with the moon base of the Chinese people." Iron Horse shook his head.

"How is this possible? The Huaguo's lunar base will probably use 1,000 tons of materials and equipment. Let alone 1,000 tons, it is difficult to send 100 tons of things up now." A group of experts looked like lunatics He looked at the steel horse.

"Then just send people up there. Didn't the people of Huaguo mean to develop the moon on behalf of all mankind? Then we also represent all mankind and send a few astronauts to help them develop the moon, so let's borrow their 'Guanghan Palace'." 'There should be no problem with the moon base, right? Since it is the property of all mankind, there is no need to divide it between you and me. We can wait for the rocket to launch before saying hello to them.'

Steel Horseway.

Wow~

All the experts were surprised, and then all raised their hands in support.

"Just do it!"

"The base of the Chinese people is our base, and they must share it."

"If you don't agree to share, then it's not going to the moon for all of humanity, it's just for their own benefit."

"I think they won't be cruel enough to watch our astronauts freeze to death and starve to death. They won't do this kind of murder."

"Hehe, this is the way to see how hypocritical they are."

A rather vicious scheme was settled just like that.

Then it enters the stage of preparing to launch the starship.

On October 12, a brand new starship rocket was assembled.

On the 13th, the selection of astronauts began, but among the more than 30 astronauts, only three of them signed up actively and were willing to carry out the mission. Of the two astronauts who insisted they were male, four were selected, filling the mission team.

On the 15th, the Florida space launch site.

"Five!"

"Four!"

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

"Rocket Launching"

Under the attention of hundreds of millions of people in ugly countries, nearly one billion people in Western countries, and billions of people around the world.

In the huge bang.

The starship rocket was launched into the sky, the sound was earth-shattering, and the sky was covered with thick smoke, which was surprising and admirable.

It's just what's going on, how come 6 of the 33 engines at the tail of the rocket are dark?

Among them, 4 are located in the outer ring and are closely adjacent to each other. They stopped working at the same time, which affected the center of gravity of the rocket, and the flight attitude was quickly crooked.

Although many countermeasures have been taken, they have no effect. The number of stalled engines has increased to 8 instead!

The posture is getting crooked.

No longer flying into the sky, but smashing towards the ground.

Stick to the 138th second.

With a loud bang, the starship rocket turned into a huge fireball and exploded into countless pieces.

Speaking of the 7 astronauts in the starship, how are they doing? Did you make a decisive decision to let the spaceship leave early and escape smoothly?

Feel sorry.

The escape failed, and the spacecraft, together with the first stage of the rocket, also exploded into countless pieces.

None of the seven astronauts remained.

The whole world was shocked.

But even if the whole country announced that it had entered a state of silence at half-mast, the ugly director of the space agency Niels announced: "We will not give up, and failure will never let us back down! The next Artemis rocket has already Get ready, we will continue to land on the moon with three astronauts in seven days, we will not admit defeat in this race, even if there is only the last rocket that can be launched to the moon, we will launch it without hesitation."

This shocked the entire nation.

There was even a rocket.

Launch in seven days? Will never back down and admit defeat?

good! good! good!

Just do it.

Being left behind is unacceptable.

No matter how much the price is paid, the huge moon is not allowed, only the Chinese people are active and entrenched on it.

This is something that is unacceptable in any case.

Immediately wipe away tears, get out of sadness, and devote all efforts and attention to the launch of the next manned rocket.

On the afternoon of October 22.

"Five!"

"Four!"

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

"Rocket Launching!"

emission! emission!

Countless audiences raised their fists high, their eyes full of fighting spirit, and let out their roars.

But only 58 seconds later.

This Althenis rocket turned into a ball of fire in the air.

The three astronauts also evaporated and disappeared in the high-temperature fireball.

Crash.

It was like a basin of cold water was poured on the heads of all the people in the ugly country, extinguishing their unwillingness and fighting spirit. Endless frustration and disappointment hit, and then turned into monstrous anger.

"Incompetent Space Agency!"

"Liar Iron Horse!"

"You bastards, who have wasted countless funds and can't do anything, you are a bunch of failures."

"Tired and destroyed, only when all these liars, liars, and incompetents disappear, can we regain our glory. We need real doers."

Messed up.

The situation suddenly became a bit chaotic.

At the same time that the scenery here in Huaguo is unique, after learning about Iron Horse's 'Hitchhiking Plan', I can't help but break out in a cold sweat. It's insidious, it's extremely insidious, a villain is a villain, he won't harm anyone for three days, and he can't walk without it. Spirituality, but apart from making trouble, they couldn't even do a good job. They didn't have the ability to make trouble, and they took ten lives one after another. It can only be said that this is a kind of retribution.