Chapter 103 The lunar mining plan is ready to start

United States.

Houston Ground Command Center.

The moment the sound from Mars was heard, thunderous applause rang out throughout the Houston Command Center!

"God bless America!"

Looking at the researchers who stood up and clapped vigorously, Professor Chris' eyes were filled with tears and he murmured to himself.

Director Morton on the side also had a relaxed smile on his face.

His position as director was saved!

Professor Chris slowly stretched out his right hand and gestured in the air.

The noisy applause and discussion in the Houston Command Center gradually stopped, and every researcher's face flushed slightly, and their eyes flashed with excitement when they looked at Chris.

When the Houston Command Center was completely quiet, Professor Chris swallowed slightly, reached out to pick up the microphone, turned on the radio switch and whispered: "Houston received! Congratulations! You are the heroes of America!"

"Now, I declare that the extravehicular operation will begin!"

Perhaps because of being too excited, Professor Chris's voice was a little hoarse.

But even so, the conversation between Andrew and Professor Chris, which lasted nearly ten minutes, spread throughout the United States at that moment!

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"The United States will never give up! The Pathfinder Project has been successfully implemented and has now successfully landed on the Utopia Plains! 》

"Greetings from Mars! The United States has once again made history! 》

"A small step for the United States, a big step for mankind! 》

"The United States will rise again! 》

At the moment when the Pathfinder series successfully landed on Mars, all newspapers rushed to print the newspapers of the day!

The overwhelming news instantly drowned every American!

Just as President Albert said that day: "I don't allow any American to not know this news!"

At the moment the news was reported, countless American citizens spontaneously took to the streets and began to celebrate this historic moment!

The Twitter server even crashed because of this incident!

"Hahaha! I knew it! Sometimes if you don't push NASA, they don't know how capable they are!"

"God is with America!"

"Is Xia still landing on the moon? Hahaha, by the time their lunar palace plan is implemented, our American flag of freedom will have been planted on every inch of Mars!"

"How can you lose when flying dragons? ! ! Tell me, how can you lose!!"

"I declare that the United States has won this round of space race!"

"I declare your declaration valid!"

"..."

...

At the same time, Mars, Utopia Plain.

The hatch of the Pathfinder 1 landing module slowly opened, and three astronauts wearing bulky spacesuits walked down the gangway to the landing module.

For the first time, human footprints appeared on the red surface of Mars.

"Let's go, we have to speed up." Andrew looked up at the sky, then looked down at the time on his watch, and said in a deep voice: "It will be dark in a few hours."

As the planet with the highest similarity to the earth in the solar system, the length of a day on Mars is almost the same as that on Earth, about 40 minutes longer.

"It's probably too late today, right?"

Bruno roughly estimated the time and whispered in the team's radio channel: "It will take at least ten hours to unfold and build the Mars cabin."

Andrew frowned slightly and turned to look at Joey beside him: "Joey, how long can the supplies in the landing cabin last?"

Joey thought for a few seconds and quickly responded: "If we count the consumption of our extravehicular operations, there is probably two days of oxygen left."

"That is to say..." Andrew's face changed slightly, "If we want to ensure safety, we must complete the construction of the Mars cabin before nightfall tomorrow?"

"I'm afraid so."

Hearing Joey's answer, Andrew felt heavy in his heart.

It seems that there is plenty of time, but due to the limitations of the space suits, they need to replenish oxygen every three hours of work, and then take into account the time spent on the road...

"Let's do this."

After a brief thought, Andrew quickly gave an order: "Bruno, you and I will install the No. 1 and No. 2 Mars cabins first, Joey, you are responsible for installing the air circulation module and the power supply module!"

The US Mars cabin consists of five truncated cone-shaped cabins.

Among them, cabin No. 1 is the most critical, which has a large number of scientific research equipment, and even the main control computer is in cabin No. 1.

Cabin No. 2 is the astronaut living cabin, cabin No. 3 is the warehouse, cabin No. 4 is the Mars planting unit, and cabin No. 5 is the airlock cabin.

At that time, several astronauts will try to grow some crops on Mars to verify the possibility of colonizing Mars in the future.

In order to facilitate installation, the Mars cabin has an autonomous deployment function.

What the astronauts need to do is to install various functional modules and precision instruments after the Mars cabin is successfully deployed.

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At the same time, the first laboratory of Xia Country.

In just two months, a large factory building was built next to the laboratory.

Unlike ordinary factories, there is no worker inside these factories, only rows of flexible manipulators and various mechanical processing equipment.

Standing at the door of a factory, Lv Yongchang looked at the scene inside the factory with a flash of amazement in his eyes.

One by one, the manipulators flexibly grabbed the workpieces on the crawler and manipulated the machine tools to quickly process them into various parts.

"Although I have watched this scene many times, I still have an unrealistic feeling..."

Fang Xu sighed from the side: "I never thought that one day, all production tasks could be handed over to computers."

"If this scene spreads... I guess many workers will be laid off, right?"

Lu Yongchang chuckled and shook his head slowly: "It's not so exaggerated."

"Manipulating so many processing equipment at the same time has basically reached the limit of zero."

"If you want to expand it to the whole country... you will need at least a computer with hundreds of millions of qubits."

Fang Xu was silent for a while, then spoke again: "According to the current progress, the first batch of automatic lunar mining equipment should be almost completed, right?"

Lu Yongchang turned to look at the camera at the door of the factory: "Zero?"

The next second, an electronic synthesized voice that was not much different from a real person's voice sounded: "Professor, it is estimated that it will take another 20 hours and 36 minutes."

The moment he heard the estimated time, Lu Yongchang's eyes suddenly lit up!

"Brother Xu, let Bai Yixuan and others get ready. The day after tomorrow, the lunar mining plan will be officially launched!"

Before Fang Xu could reply, Zero spoke again: "Professor, there is some news that I think you might be interested in."

"What?"

A trace of doubt flashed in Lu Yongchang's eyes.

"According to the latest news from NASA, the U.S. Pathfinder has successfully landed on Utopia Plain."