<h4>Chapter 782: Arrival on Mars?</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>Henyee Trantions <strong>Editor: </strong>Henyee Trantions


    As far as the Chinese academicmunity was concerned, June was the time for the academician primaries announcement.


    On the other hand, June was also the third month of the Heart of Gold flight...


    A silver-colored spacecraft slowly moved forward in the deep space. It was tens of millions of kilometers away from Earth.


    Whenparing the spacecraft to the Sun, it seemed like the spacecraft was moving at the speed of a snail, but in fact, it was moving nearly four kilometers a second.


    If this were four days ago, it would be moving even faster. Its speed had now been greatly decelerated by Mars’ gravitational system.


    Johnson stared at the fiery red outside the porthole. A victorious smile appeared on his face.


    “It’s Mars! Jesus, we’re finally here!”


    With a camera in her hand, Julia took a photo of the fiery red.


    “It’s so beautiful!”


    Four days ago, the BFS spacecraft carrying the colony capsule sessfully separated from the BFR rocket before entering the Mars gravitational system and orbiting the in an elliptical orbit.


    After deceleration and severalplex orbital changes, the BFS manned spacecraft, also known as the Heart of Gold, had finally sessfully approached the Mars atmosphere.


    This was the end of their journey.


    This was the beginning of civilization’s exploration of the gxy!


    “When are wending?” Travis looked at the outside the window and said, “I’m feeling a little nauseous.”


    Johnson was here for the glory, but Travis was here for different reasons. He only joined the Ares program to hide from his debt.


    As for why he had toe all the way to Mars...


    1He didn’t have a reason; he never did anything with a reason.


    He saw the Space-X advertisement when he was drunk, so he filled out the form without thinking. Then when he almost forgot about it, someone suddenly called him and said he was chosen.


    Honestly, he thought the phone call was a scam. After all, he didn’t think they would actually take a football yer to Mars.


    Fortunately, NASA didn’t ask him to do anythingplicated. They just gave him some basic colonist training. The moreplex operations were done by the former marine, Johnson.


    Johnson was different from Travis and Julia. He was the “captain” of the Heart of Gold. He had been carefully selected and had been professionally trained. He actually signed a contract with Space-X years ago.


    Apparently back then, there was no such thing as the Ares program. China hadn’t even started its moonnding program, but Space-X already had ns to colonize Mars...


    “Prepare fornding!” Johnson floated back to his seat and pped his hands. “Okay my friends, our future home is right in front of our eyes. Our altitude is at 316.7 kilometers, and we will reach our target airspace in five minutes! Please put on your Mars spacesuit and connect yourself with the environment-control bio-security system. Give me a thumbs up when you’re ready!”


    Travis nervously inserted the environmental life control tube into his seat. He put on his seatbelt and asked, “How long are we living here for?”


    Johnson smiled heartily and said, “Four to five years at least! Someone might take our ce in a couple of years, and of course, it could also be for the rest of our lives. It looks like Vegas here, nothing but red sand.”


    Travis couldn’t help but say, “Las Vegas isn’t as deserted as this!”


    “Then let’s change that... Guys, prepare fornding! Environment life control system is activated! 3, 2, 1... Ignite!


    “Here we go!”


    The spacecraft was in the target airspace and the orbital calibration wasplete. Johnson pressed thending button.


    His seat began to shake violently, and through the porthole, he saw them getting farther and farther away from the spacecraft shuttle.


    Travis could feel the g-force acting on him, and he whispered, “Sh*t.”


    Johnson, who was sitting in the main pilot’s seat, clenched his teeth while looking excited.


    Julia was also sitting in the cockpit, and she looked around nervously while secretly praying in her heart.


    They had taken the first step toward Mars.


    As for what would happen next, only God could answer them...


    ...


    Even at their closest point, Mars was tens of millions of kilometers away from Earth.


    Sending an email from Mars to Earth would take at least three minutes. Therefore, after entering Mars’ gravitational system, it would be difficult for NASA’s groundmand center to urately track and give directions to the Heart of Gold.


    However, even though the three-minute dy made it much more difficult tomunicate, the news of the Heart of Goldnding still spread all over Earth...


    Jinlingunch site.


    Ever since the establishment of the Lunar Orbit Committee, this had be the home base of the Lunar Orbit Committee.


    In order to help the construction of the lunar orbit project, two major aviation and aerospacepanies had set up their offices here. Even the China National Space Administration moved some of their offices from Beijing to here.


    An urgent meeting was underway in a conference room on the first floor of theunch sitemand center.


    The deputy director of the China National Space Administration, Chen Yunhai, who was also the director of the Lunar Orbit Committee organization department, sat there with a report in his hand.


    “35 minutes ago, we received a message from the five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope. Through the diagnosis and identification of the space signal, we confirmed the electromaic wave was transmitted from Mars. The message transmission time was 10 minutes.”


    He ced the report on the table and looked around the conference table.


    “This is the FAST project team report. ording to their spections, the Heart of Gold has sessfully entered Mars orbit!”


    Whispers were heard around the conference table.


    A lot of people turned their heads toward Lu Zhou, who was sitting at the other end of the table, staring at hisptop. Unsurprisingly, Lu Zhou didn’t react at all.


    Yuan Huanmin, the chief engineer of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, asked, “Have they begunnding?”


    “We aren’t sure, but if they’re already in Mars orbit, it shouldn’t be difficult tond.”


    Even though this was the first time a human being was sent to Mars, this wasn’t the first time NASA had sent a spacecraft to Mars. Starting with the Viking 1, the US space industry had more than half a century of experience in Mars surfacending. It was unlikely for anding problem to happen.


    After hearing Academician Yuan’s words, Chen Yunhai spoke.


    “Not sure, we are still confirming the legitimacy of the news...”


    “There’s no need.” Lu Zhou suddenly spoke.


    “They were probably sessful. The piece of information captured by the FAST team was probably a video transmission of the Heart of Gold to the NASAmand center.”


    Chen Yunhai paused for a second, adjusted his sses, and spoke.


    “How do you know...”


    Lu Zhou turned hisptop screen around and said, “Because they just uploaded a video on Youtube.”