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"Then let them scold you!"

Before Musk could finish speaking, a deep voice suddenly came from outside the door.

He instantly recognized that the person coming was his old buddy Chuan Pu.

"We have to do something, even if it's to give them a chance to vent their anger, otherwise people will always hold it back and bigger problems will easily arise."

After hearing this, Musk did not give his good friend any face. He just snorted: "So I became a prop for you to calm down your anger?"

"No, I believe our Iron Man will not disappoint everyone."

Chuanpu stretched out his right hand and gestured "" to Musk.

"NASA will then fully promote the Artemis plan to return to the moon, including three stages of manned moon landing, lunar gateway space station and lunar surface base construction. The entire plan is expected to invest more than one trillion US dollars."

"Once SpaceX succeeds in this mysterious star exploration plan, I guarantee that I will win more than 80% of the launch missions for SpaceX's return to the moon plan."

Musk immediately laughed.

It’s not just a day or two since the M country shouted to return to the moon.

As early as 2004, NASA proposed the Constellation Plan to cope with space needs after the retirement of the space shuttle.

At the same time, the plan also takes into account manned landing on the moon to prepare for long-term stay and lunar development.

However, due to budget overruns and schedule delays, the Constellation project was canceled in 2010.

It was not until 2017 that, with Chuanpu’s strong promotion, the plan was restarted.

Project Constellation was also officially renamed ‘Project Artemis’.

But the restarted Artemis project is even more bumpy.

Among them, the SLS rocket project handed over to Boeing, even though it basically used the technology of the previous space shuttle, it took a full 10 years to finally complete the development and assembly of the rocket and spacecraft.

However, this was only the beginning of the plan going wrong.

The assembled Artemis 1 was originally planned to be launched at the end of 21, but due to various malfunctions such as fuel leakage, the launch plan has been continuously postponed.

He was about to launch it, but he held it back.

There’s no need to say more about how uncomfortable this feels, right?

And they have experienced this feeling so many times that they can't even count it on their fingers.

At most, they even canceled two or three times a week.

It made them all numb!

It wasn't until December 22 that this "difficult" stock rocket was finally launched and successfully completed the unmanned flight test mission around the moon.

Otherwise, NASA and Boeing really don’t know what will happen...

But then the problem came again,

Between 2011 and 2022, the SLS project burned a total of US$23.8 billion!

The original planned cost of a launch was US$400 million.

After calculating the results, it was found that their actual launch cost was almost 4 billion!

When NASA looked at the bill,

Immediately I couldn’t bear it!

The plan progress bar has only increased a little, so why did you burn so much money?

You know, when they launched a space shuttle, it only cost 450 million US dollars.

At this rate of burning money, even the money printing machine can’t hold it back!

"There must be something fishy, ​​and I must have swallowed the money to cheat!"

However, in the face of severe accusations and accusations from NASA, Boeing also expressed its aggrievement.

Who hollowed out the manufacturing industry in country M?

Who is sitting back and watching the global industrial chain shift to the East?

Now that most of the industrial chain is in the hands of others, the costs in many places are naturally not decided by oneself.

NASA became even more angry after hearing this.

Good guy, I didn’t expect that I would also be pinched by the neck.

If we continue with the plan, wouldn’t we be giving away the money to others for free?

Then play a ball!

So NASA sent people overnight to dismantle the lunar rover ‘Viper’ that cost 400 million US dollars to build!

Isn’t it okay if we don’t return to this moon? !

Of course, although they had already canceled the plan in their hearts,

But on the surface, we still can’t give in.

So what they announced to the outside world was that the Artemis 2 launch plan was pushed from 24 to 25 due to schedule issues.

When it came to 25 years, they said it would be postponed to 26 years...

In fact, they had no intention of advancing the progress bar at all.

If SpaceX's starships hadn't become more and more reliable in recent years, giving NASA a glimmer of hope, they would probably have pushed it to the next century...

This is why Musk showed a sneer after hearing the words "return to the moon."

"It seems that apart from us, NASA can't find anyone suitable for this project, right? So...is there any difference?"

Seeing Musk's proud expression, Chuanpu didn't feel any embarrassment at being exposed. Instead, he was ready to flatter him, and then use his years of friendship to coerce him.

As a result, Musk changed the subject and said: "But you said something right just now. Iron Man will not let everyone down, because what he is best at is making the impossible possible."

"So, let's meet on October 1st at the Mystery Star!"

After saying that, he vowed to convene a team of engineers to discuss the matter of speeding up the flight speed of the Mystery-1 detector.

In order to ensure the success of the plan, they actually made quite sufficient preparations.

Especially after learning from the lessons of Lucy and Tianwen-2, in order to save space in the spacecraft and bring more fuel to improve the spacecraft's orbit-changing ability, in addition to simplifying the modules of the spacecraft itself, they even castrated part of the detector. function,

Therefore, regarding the matter of slightly increasing the speed, Musk believes that the risk will increase a bit, but overall it is still controllable.

However, what they don't know is that

There is a big pit waiting for them...

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Soon, NASA and SpaceX issued a joint statement, claiming that they would conduct a live broadcast of the entire detection process when the Mystery-1 probe approaches the Mystery Star, revealing this mysterious asteroid to the world.

Of course, due to limitations of communication technology, this live broadcast cannot be a real-time video broadcast, but a picture live broadcast with a delay of nearly an hour.

But even the delayed picture live broadcast still attracted a lot of attention.

The main reason is that everyone is too curious about this asteroid that the scientific community agrees is ‘impossible to exist’ but actually exists...

In this turbulent atmosphere, time finally came to October 1st.

The eyes of the whole world are now focused on both ends of the ocean.

Because there is a time difference of more than ten hours between the two places, the live broadcast of the detection of the Mysterious Star actually started on the evening of September 30th, local time in Country M.

The first thing shown in the live broadcast is the footage taken by the cameras on both sides of the detector. One of them takes a picture of the Japanese L4 area, and the other takes a picture of the Earth.

There is also an animated simulation window that demonstrates the current position and flight trajectory of the probe in the solar system.

To be honest, even though they were the first to start broadcasting, the audience was somewhat disappointed when they came in because the pitch-black picture was really uninteresting.

Fortunately, the screen quickly cut to the studio,

Musk and several engineers, experts and professors began to explain the live broadcast. At the same time, in the form of a documentary, they gradually introduced the "past and present life" of the Mystery Star as well as the key points, challenges and significance of this detection mission. This made this event The live broadcast seems more interesting.

However, this kind of attraction suddenly seemed pale and weak after the picture on the other side was shown...

After all, the Mysterious Star is too far away for most people, and it feels that it has little to do with life.

But the upcoming military parade over there is actually taking place on Earth.

and,

Who can refuse that unique, oppressive, and obsessive-compulsive arrangement that is unique to the East?

By the way, you can also see various advanced weapons and equipment, which is an eye-opener and an eye-opener...

All I can say is,

It’s so difficult to create a show that’s more eye-catching than China’s military parade!