Chapter 502 For the sake of freedom

A group of people in the conference room, after a period of research and discussion, determined the next plan.

So not long after, the National Space Administration CNSA joined forces with the Dingguang Aerospace Research Institute to formally protest internationally. Of course, their evidence was also published.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also helped them speak out.

After all, no matter what, this matter was obviously the biggest risk they faced at the time.

If we use the example of high-altitude throwing objects, it is that someone first threw a stone at their house from the bottom of the building. When they were standing on the balcony, they saw the stone flying over and subconsciously blocked it.

As a result, they hit it.

Of course, they would not admit that they had blocked the stone back anyway. After all, no one could provide evidence for this matter.

Even if the direction of the fragment they blew up was indeed the direction of the Dragon spacecraft, no one can prove that it was the fragment they blew up that ultimately caused the Dragon spacecraft to explode.

Not to mention that they also found evidence that the three space junks were actually suicide satellites.

As for how to prove which country these suicide satellites belong to, there is no need to prove it. After all, the only one that had the opportunity to drop these three suicide satellites at that time was SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, and the orbit that the Dragon spacecraft had previously passed was also Very close to the orbit of Tian Nian.

So this point basically does not need to be proven, it is an obvious fact.

Therefore, after this statement of protest was issued, it once again aroused heated discussions around the world.

In order to prevent the success of the "Ying" plan, the Americans want to blow up the Tiannian?

Still failed?

The whole world ate this melon, and they were all shocked.

This is really a no-brainer, and it has made people all over the world see clearly the bottom line of this country.

Even when they were competing in the space race with the Soviet Union, they didn't do anything like this. But now, they actually broke through the bottom line?

Suddenly, the whole world was in denunciation.

"I never expected that they would do such a despicable thing. It's so shameless! 』

"People can be incompetent or shameless, but they cannot be shameless and incompetent at the same time. But this country did it!" 』

"To be able to use this method to prevent other people's plans to board the moon, I can only say that I will believe whatever conspiracy they want to use in the future. 』

"No wonder SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft stayed in orbit for nearly two days, and then they started moving after Tianan took off. It turned out to be just waiting for such an opportunity! 』

"Yes!" There was news before that SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft stayed in orbit for a long time due to a malfunction. It turned out to be waiting for the Tiannian to take off! How despicable! 』

"..."

In this way, people from almost every country in the world are spitting on the United States.

Especially now, more and more countries no longer succumb to the power of this country, but choose to change their doors. With support, naturally they are not afraid.

As for citizens in the United States, when facing the world's rebuke, many people also sent in to criticize their ruling party.

Anyway, for the vast majority of the American people, even if they have nothing to do, they still want to scold their ruling party, not to mention that this time this group of people has made people even more angry.

Many loyal Christian believers also believe that their Statue of Liberty was destroyed by the Dragon spacecraft because God sent divine punishment, warning them that their current actions are actually reaping the consequences.

So just like that, a demonstration was launched against the president, NASA, and even SpaceX.

The accumulation of all these incidents immediately made the White House and NASA extremely anxious.

This incident can be described as a major challenge for their ruling party.

They had never encountered such a difficult situation.

"Fake, didn't you promise that you wouldn't be seen out? What on earth is going on?"

In the White House, the President looked at the Secretary of State and their NASA Administrator Eisenberg in front of him and became angry.

The Secretary of State and Eisenberg both lowered their heads. This incident was indeed a big bad luck for them.

In fact, they were already prepared to be discovered, but only if their plan could succeed.

As long as the plan succeeds, it is easy to say anything, just deny it and then reach a settlement secretly. Anyway, the problem that money can solve is not a problem at all. Although in today's world currency market, the value of RMB The momentum is quite strong, but the US dollar is still the currency hegemon.

Just print it and you're done.

But the point is, if their plan doesn't work, then they become clowns.

Therefore, they are powerless to defend such a result.

After the president scolded him for a while, he finally gave up when he was tired of scolding.

Sitting back in his seat, he couldn't help but think back to the past.

Ten years ago, they didn't have to worry about this kind of problem.

But the situation now has completely changed, and the international situation cannot be compared with those years.

Now, it can be said that it is the first time that they have been criticized by so many countries around the world.

Basically, only a few countries still controlled by them did not participate.

"Okay, tell me, what should we do now?"

the president asked after letting out a long sigh.

After the Secretary of State and Eisenberg looked at each other, the Secretary of State stepped forward and said: "No matter what, we must deny it to the outside world."

"Well, if you don't admit it, don't admit it. But the question is, how many people will believe it then?" the president said: "Now the whole world knows it."

The Secretary of State smiled and then said: "This is an interesting question. Think about it when we blew up the gas pipeline, the situation was similar."

The president nodded, it was true, it had happened before, and they still had strong control over various media, so it wasn't a big problem.

Then he said: "Well, what next?"

After the Secretary of State was silent for a moment, he said: "Next, we should also focus on our Mars plan. The development of this AB plan has far exceeded our expectations. ."

"It can be said to be a complete failure."

After all, who would have thought that there would be such a powerful laser weapon on the Tiannian?

This directly ruined Plan B, which was originally guaranteed to succeed.

After hearing the Secretary of State's words, the President slammed the table with his fist, showing an angry look.

Then he suddenly turned his gaze to Eisenberg aside and asked: "Eisenberg, now tell me, is there any other way we can ensure that our rocket can be the first to reach Mars?"

"Absolutely, we can't be surpassed by their Tian Nian!"

Eisenberg was stunned when he heard this.

What? At this time, you still want to guarantee the number one position?

He could only say one thing about this: he really did not change his original intention.

Then he shook his head and said: "No, Mr. President, there is not enough fuel left on our Mars spacecraft."

"The remaining fuel on it is prepared for their return flight later. We can't use up all the fuel for their return home."

Upon hearing this answer, the president's face immediately showed an expression of unwillingness.

In this case, wouldn't it be very likely that they would fail completely?

To be honest, the various performances displayed by the current Tian Nian have already given him PTSD. God only knows how fast this Tian Nian can land on fire.

But now that Eisenberg has said so, he has no choice.

However, at this moment, the Secretary of State next to him suddenly spoke again: "But what if we change the method, instead of letting them go home on their own, we pick them up?"

Eisenberg was stunned and asked, "What do you mean?"

"That is to say, let them use the fuel used to return home to accelerate, and then we will immediately build a new landing rocket and launch it."

The Secretary of State said calmly.

But what Eisenberg saw in the Secretary of State's eyes was a ruthlessness to achieve his goals regardless of the cost.

Especially now the price they may pay is the lives of those five astronauts.

No wonder this guy was able to come up with a plan to crash the Tiannian.

However, Eisenberg flatly rejected such a plan.

"Impossible! It is absolutely impossible to use such a plan, unless you are crazy! Once you do this, when they land on Mars and encounter any dangers, they will not be able to leave Mars in time through the landing module! "

Eisenberg sternly refused: "I believe you have all seen "The Martian". When the landing team in the movie first encountered a Martian dust storm, they quickly left Mars through the landing module and escaped."

"If you do this now, you are depriving our astronauts of a chance to escape!"

But after hearing Eisenberg's words, the Secretary of State just smiled and then said: "Eisenberg, don't make it so serious!"

"After all, you've said it now, it's just a movie. In reality, our astronauts can't accidentally encounter a Martian sandstorm, right?"

"What's more, the life support system we prepared for them includes the function of resisting Martian dust storms, so the possibility of this happening is even lower."

Eisenberg snorted coldly: "I know what you are planning now, but I will never allow you to make fun of the lives of astronauts."

The Secretary of State smiled and waved his hand and said, "It's not that serious. Let's just ask our astronauts and leave the decision-making power to them. You should agree to this, right?"

"That's not okay. This kind of thing cannot be left to them to decide on their own. They have no idea what kind of situation they will face." Eisenberg shook his head again.

He refused because he knew full well how stupid that guy named Jayden Armstrong was.

The main reason why this guy was made one of the five candidates was because of his name. Otherwise, in the preliminary stage, this guy would have completely failed to meet the standards.

But for political show, they let this guy in, and even became the captain of their fire climbing team.

Thinking of this guy sending them more than a dozen short videos almost every day to ask them to help run his TOKTIK account, Eisenberg felt itchy with hatred and regretted letting this idiot come in in the first place.

Once this matter was told to them, with the IQ of this idiot Jayden Armstrong, he definitely did not want the title of "the first human to land on Mars" to fall into the hands of others.

Even if the other four people don't agree by then, Eisenberg is very suspicious that Jayden will force the other four people to agree.

Therefore, he would never leave the decision-making power on this matter to them.

However, upon hearing Eisenberg's refusal, the Secretary of State's face suddenly turned cold.

"Director Eisenberg, you don't think that if our Statue of Liberty falls, you can deprive others of their right to make free choices, do you?"

"You are slandering!" Eisenberg immediately said angrily: "Even if I deprive them of their right to free choice, you are depriving them of their right to life through inducement!"

"Haha, life is precious, and love is more expensive. If it comes to freedom, both can be thrown away." The Secretary of State smiled lightly and said: "Obviously, freedom is more important, so, Mr. Eisenberg, this matter , obviously you are more hateful."

"you……"

When Eisenberg was about to continue to refute this ridiculous theory, suddenly, the president's voice came: "Eisenberg Condy, you are now officially fired."

"My subordinates do not need a cowardly space agency director like you." The president said: "Human spaceflight is originally for freedom in a greater sense, and what this requires is enough adventurous spirit and courage. "

"And you are completely unworthy now."

Eisenberg was stunned when he heard the president's words.

He was fired because of this?

At this time, a smile appeared on the Secretary of State's face, and then he said: "Mr. Condi, this is the President's Office. If you don't have an appointment, please go out immediately, otherwise I will call the guard."

He looked at the presidential secretary next to him and said to him: "Why don't you let Mr. Condi leave the White House quickly?"

The secretary responded, nodded immediately, walked up and said to Eisenberg: "Mr. Condi, please."

Eisenberg's face was already livid with anger, and then he said angrily: "Stupid! You are insulting human spaceflight!"

Then he waved his hand and turned away. When he closed the door, he slammed the door with a loud bang, which made other people outside the door stunned. When did their Director Eisenberg become so brave?

How dare you slam the door of the President's Office?

How noisy is this?

Of course, in the office, when he heard the loud noise when the door closed, the president immediately stood up in anger, "This bitch's son..."

However, the Secretary of State soon smiled and said to the President: "Well, Mr. President, at least in the future, we will not see such cowardice again."

The president nodded, indeed.

But then he snorted coldly and said, "If I had known I should have replaced this guy when I took office."

The Secretary of State smiled and waved his hand, and then said: "Well, Mr. President, let's determine the next NASA administrator now so that we can implement the plan we just mentioned."

"Yes." The president nodded slightly, "I hope this plan will definitely allow us to reach Mars as soon as possible."

The Secretary of State said: "Don't worry. In fact, I have already made calculations with aerospace experts. As long as fuel consumption is not taken into account, we can reach Mars at least one and a half months in advance, which is around mid-August."

The president's eyes suddenly lit up: "Okay! Well done!"

"Secretary of State, you are smarter. Look at the other people. They are just a bunch of idiots."

The Secretary of State smiled slightly and said very humbly: "This is all for our party."

Then he said: "Oh, by the way, it should be approved by NASA. Eisenberg Conti is no longer their director."

"In addition, we really need to ask our five astronauts first."

"They won't refuse, right?" the president frowned and asked.

"Just add some money." The Secretary of State said nonchalantly. "Then we can assure them of the probability of success. They will definitely agree."

The president nodded, "Okay, then do what you said."

"OK."

The Secretary of State nodded.

Then he picked up his cell phone and made a call to the space agency to inform them of the incident.

NASA was very surprised after learning about this incident. Did they change their heads?

Of course, compared to this surprise, NASA seems to have obtained an even more shocking result.

"What? You said that the piece of space junk that caused the Dragon spacecraft to explode had a high probability of coming from one of the three BSS-type satellites."

"And the one that caused all this was the Tiannian?"

The Secretary of State's eyes widened, not expecting to hear such shocking news.

"Did they do it on purpose?"

"Impossible? 99.999% chance of it being a coincidence? Okay, I get it."

"Oh? Are the astronauts on the International Space Station continuing to replenish supplies? Are they running out of space to put their solid waste? Shetter, let them be patient and contact SpaceX to see when their Dragon spacecraft can be launched again. "

"I know, hang up."

Putting down the phone, the president frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

The Secretary of State replied: "The cargo bay used to store solid waste on the International Space Station is running out of space, and the astronauts on it are making a fuss. Damn it, they don't know how to stop it."

The president twitched his lips, and then asked: "I'm talking about the one in front. The Tiannian caused the explosion of the Dragon spacecraft?"

The Secretary of State shook his head helplessly, and then told the current investigation results.

"However, now that they have revealed that the three satellites are suicide satellites, even if we release the results of this investigation, I am afraid we will not gain any advantage in public opinion."

The Secretary of State smiled bitterly, "Does this really mean we are reaping the consequences?"

After the president heard the news, his blood pressure increased again.

What the hell, in the end, the clown turned out to be themselves?

"F...gram!"

Then he stared suddenly and clutched his chest, probably because he had angina pectoris again.

When the Secretary of State saw this, he quickly ran outside and called the doctor.

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