In the dark and deep starry sky, a silver-white rocket was slowly approaching the fiery red planet. On the side of this rocket, there was a palm-sized star-spangled flag. Below the star-spangled flag, the badges of NASA and SpaceX were printed.
"This is Ares. We have entered the Mars synchronous orbit. Communication is over."
Through the round glass window, the black astronaut standing in the spacecraft looked at the fiery red planet, restrained the excitement in his heart, and reported to the ground command center in a calm but trembling voice.
The silence lasted for about five minutes.
For NASA, which had not yet mastered faster than light communication technology, the interval between each communication probably needed this long.
"This is B City Ground Command Center. Congratulations, you are the pride of the UA …"
After more than a month of flight, they finally arrived here.
"Ares", with a total weight of more than 400 tons, was pushed by four "Ares VI" carrier rockets using the latest propulsion engines. It finally crossed the distance of tens of millions of kilometers, crossed the technical blockade of Celestial Trade, and arrived at the red planet …
When they thought of this, the eight astronauts in the spacecraft burst into tears.
"Is that the Seagull-class of Celestial Trade?" A blond, skinny white man pointed out the window.
With the pitch-black universe as the background, a long, giant spaceship floated quietly tens of thousands of kilometers away from them. Through binoculars, they could clearly see every inch of the armor on the giant ship. The awe-inspiring cold iron and the fiery red planet formed a sharp visual contrast, like a quenched longsword.
Even tens of thousands of kilometers away, they could feel their own insignificance and the greatness of the other party …
Braith shook his head hard and drove this wrong thought out of his head.
He was the captain of the entire Mars expedition team and the captain of the Ares. They came with the ambition of inserting the star-spangled flag on Mars, not to admire the achievements of Celestial Trade.
"They are powerful, but we will surpass them one day." A Jewish man walked next to him, put his hand on the shoulder of the black man, and said in an affirmative tone, "Order the landing."
"Thank you, Kubik."
Braith took a deep breath and turned around to face the members of the "Ares Project" behind him. He then ordered in a deep voice.
"All crew members, prepare to enter the buffer compartment. Let us land on this new continent! "
"Yes!"
Cheers and whistles rang out.
Under Breith's orders, everyone lay down in the buffer cabin and prepared to withstand the impact.
During the descent and deceleration phase, they had to withstand about 7G of gravity. However, this was very easy for them. For this day, they had trained for countless days and months, and countless hours.
…
"UFO detected entering Mars synchronous orbit."
"Unidentified flying object?" With an unfinished cup of coffee, the captain of the Expedition walked to the side of the radar observer, looked at the screen in front of him, and ordered, "Turn on the optical observation system."
"Yes."
The observer tapped on the touchpad a few times and quickly brought up the image of the aircraft on the screen. After several enlargements and resolution corrections, an aircraft with a length of about 25 meters and a diameter of about 5 meters appeared on the image.
When the captain saw the star-spangled flag printed on the side of the aircraft, the expression on his face became a little playful.
He put the coffee cup in his hand on the table and looked at the correspondent in the back seat.
"Connect me to the Space Command Center."
"Roger."
Kelvin, who just finished a meeting, was walking at the entrance of the Earth Defense Alliance Headquarters in Celestial City.
At this moment, his watch vibrated. He opened the holographic screen and saw that it was a call from the Ground Command Center.
After he asked the staff about the situation, Kelvin immediately transferred the communication to the TS Expedition and looked at the captain on the other side of the screen.
"Tell me the specifics."
The captain saluted to the head of the Space Department and reported quickly.
"We found a UA spacecraft near the Mars synchronous orbit with NASA and SpaceX logos on it. Based on the analysis of the spacecraft size, it is initially determined to be a manned spacecraft. "
"A manned rocket?" Kelvin frowned and said with a strange expression, "What does the UA want to do?"
The Americans actually shot a rocket at Mars without saying a word?
Although it wasn't that Celestial Trade didn't consider this possibility and even received information from certain channels, Calvin, who personally confirmed the news, was still surprised.
After all, their Biotechnology Summit had just ended, and they had clearly demonstrated how dangerous the Devil Worm was. What kind of mentality did the Capitol have to make the decision to launch a manned rocket to Mars knowing this?
Or did the UA take their warning as a joke?
"From the way they changed orbit, they should be planning to land on the surface of Mars. Our carrier-based pilots are already in position on the Stingray A-1, ready to intercept at any time, "the captain said in a sonorous tone.
"What is the probability of being discovered?" Kelvin asked.
"We can first launch an EMP missile to disable the communication module exposed outside the spacecraft, and then send the Stingray A-1 to bring it down." The captain asserted, "Unless their spacecraft is equipped with an early warning radar, the probability of discovering our attack in advance is zero."
After a moment of silence, Kelvin looked at the captain.
"Can you calculate their landing point?"
"The approximate area can be determined, and the error is within ten kilometers." The captain sent a set of coordinates to the holographic screen in front of Kelvin.
Looking at the coordinates on the screen, Kelvin silently estimated in his mind.
Even in the closest situation, these UA were hundreds of kilometers away from Mine 071. There was no need to worry about them discovering anything.
Moreover, the area where they landed seemed to be very close to the active area of the Devil Worm …
"Let the pilots be on standby on the carrier-based aircraft, but don't worry about them." Within half a minute, Kelvin made a decision. "If they are in such a hurry to die, let them go."
"Roger!" The captain saluted and ended the communication.
Even if Celestial Trade did nothing, they wouldn't survive for long. Kelvin, who knew how aggressive the Devil Worm was, was certain of this.
After ending the communication with the captain of SS Expedition, Kelvin immediately called Jiang Chen and gave a brief report of the incident.
At the same time, the Ares, which had stopped in the geosynchronous orbit, dropped the last four rockets and a geosynchronous orbit satellite as a communication relay.
Then, with only one main cabin left, Ares ignited the last stage of the engine and began to fall to the surface of Mars …
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