Washington, NASA headquarters.

"These goddamn media don't even want to face for click-through rate!"It should be controlled!”Charles Bor indignantly put the New York Times on the table, and the recent news just to think about making him burn red and hot and embarrassing, and recently NASA has not shared the news on the official media Instagram.

Because dare not ah, the gun to shoot the head of the bird thing who knows, this mutual spray incident can be said that NASA is the source of everything, look at NASA on Instagram crazy 7 million fans know, this should be a good news, but in this period of time, even NASA is not afraid to go out ah.

Are there fewer companies and institutions with guns?

"Sir, it's not a bad thing, at least we sucked 7 million AA powder during this time, and the cumulative number of fans exceeded 10 million, which is worth celebrating."Bor’s secretary said with a smile.

“Fucking good!You like to be embarrassed, don’t you?You don’t think things are bad enough?”Charles listened to the secretary's words and was not angry.

"In fact, we can make good use of this wave of fans, as long as we wait for the tuyere."The secretary laughed.

“Like,” Charles glanced at her, said.

Charles's secretary said: "We have not announced the latest news on the ins for a long time, and with this wave of fans, we can regularly announce some of our news, such as our astronauts on the 'Tianzhou' can live broadcast their daily activities in space on youtube and the like. NASA can do some more people-friendly things, although we are a government research institution, but we also have to keep pace with the times, more people, at least in the application for funds can also provide some help, there is support."

Gradually calmed Charles suddenly realized, "It is true that Xlous has done very well in this regard, some time ago also announced the video of the test flight, the company has never let go of a little bit of the opportunity to suck AA powder, although he does not need support to apply for funds, but these fans can transfer to his major companies to consume their products, the reason is the same."This matter is left to you to deal with, the image of NASA is very important to understand?For the money!”

"Yes, sir, for the money!Also, don't forget the meeting in ten minutes."The secretary smiled a sexy smile, pointed to his wrist, and then left Bor’s office.

Charles retreated to the depression, and then came to the conference room, the participants have basically arrived, including Elon Musk in the list, in addition, there is a head of Alphabet and Bigelow Aerospace, the conference room gathered more than 20 people, most of them science and technology engineers or astrophysicists.

The people here are the top elite in the United States, and they are all coming together to explore the same topic landing on Mars.

“Plans have changed, and xxous recently announced the big news that they are building a large space station on Mars for an unknown purpose, but this information is critical to us.”Charles Bol came to the meeting and looked around and said, "Landing on Mars is indeed the main purpose of political missions, but if we think so, we will lose!"

Sitting next to Musk, he said, “Xlous is going to operate a large space station in orbit around Mars, apparently with a clear purpose.”If we just send astronauts to the surface of Mars and get a title for the first time to land on Mars, although it is a huge political victory, from a commercial point of view, we spend so much energy and money just to leave a footprint on the surface of Mars, this business is almost blood lost to the grandmother's house!"

But what can be on Mars?What else can be commercialized?”The other said incredulously.

Charles glanced at each other, “Then how do you explain that xlous wants to run a thousand-ton super space station in orbit around Mars?”“Do you have to work for at least 25 years?”

Charles’s counter-question left the other person with nothing to say.

"What baby we don't know on Mars, but xlous may know, otherwise why would Ren Hong make a Gemini plan at the cost of blood?"Do you think he has too much money to burn?”

“I think it’s important to figure out the motivations of Xlous, which is very critical!”Someone said again.

“We’re not worried about this kind of thing, we’re not intelligence professionals, and the CIA has already stepped in.”Charles looked around and said, "What we're going to do is do our job, and although we don't know what xlous saw on Mars, it's at least given us one key message, which is that there must be a baby on Mars, and we can't wait until the CIA has reliable information before we start to develop a strategy, it's too late."

“Mr. Bor, do you mean?”Another NASA officer asked curiously.

Charles was silent for a moment, then said: "We must prepare in advance, as Mr. Musk said, if we burn tens of billions of dollars just to leave a footprint on Mars, that is really not too bad to lose, we can't go to the Soviet Union's back, the face of a huge victory, in fact, the bottom of the loss."

"So, we need to set the goal a little higher, this Mars plan not only to complete the goal of landing on Mars, complete a political mission, but also to build our own Mars outpost base on the surface of Mars."In this way, we have more time to cope, there is a sentry station base on Mars, when the time to find the baby, we can also be a part of it, so that there will be no way to reach the critical moment."

"Mars, there must be a baby, we don't know, but the Xlous know the baby!"Charles said in no doubt at the end.

At this point, one of the scientists in the audience left the seat and went to the large crystal screen on the wall of the conference front desk, and the distribution map of the solar system appeared on the screen, he said: "Mr. Charles, at the same time to complete the landing on Mars and the establishment of the surface sentry base is almost impossible to complete the task."Three and a half months later, Mars is about to enter the closest phase of the Earth, this is the golden launch window, if according to Mr. Charles's request, we want to build the sentry station base, then it means that the entire plan needs to be re-engineered, we need to send the required facilities of the sentinel base into space, this time we have missed the golden launch window period, to catch up with Mars need to carry more fuel, and the increase in the sentry station base means that we need more propulsion fuel, more thrust, higher input, but basically impossible."

Say, the scientist looked back at Charles, "I know it's urgent, but ... can only take a step, can't be sloppy, this is space activities!" 」

“Damn it!”Charles scolded in a low voice, and he knew that this was an indisputable fact, that Mars would not wait for you, and that it would be far away every second.

The discussion reached an impasse for a while.

Elon Musk, who has not spoken for a long time, looked at the star map on the main screen, and when everyone was silent, his eyes suddenly lit up and stared at the screen slightly excitedly and said, "I think I can!"