It was precisely because China was ahead in the lunar orbiting program that America chose a more radical route in its Mars landing program.
America's previous annual investment in NASA ranged from 20 billion to 30 billion US dollars.
Their Chinese counterparts, such as ASA, have significantly less budget.
China's investment in the aerospace field was only announced in 2017, at approximately 2 billion US dollars, while NASA's budget that year was 20 billion US dollars.
The later online estimate of 10 billion US dollars for SA was based on launch estimates from foreign institutions.
In reality, SA's labor and manufacturing costs are significantly lower than NASA's, which leads to China's actual purchasing power exceeding the budget considerably.
Even so, China's actual investment still lags behind NASA.
In recent years, NASA's budget has soared from two or three hundred billion US dollars to more than eight hundred billion US dollars.
"That's why we chose to land on Mars in the middle of next year."
This Mars landing can only succeed; failure is unacceptable, as everyone knows the consequences of failure.
"With such a large budget, the men in Congress will not allow us to fail."
If we fail, everyone has to step down.
Faced with China's increasing pressure in the aerospace field, journalists pressed senior American officials for answers in various public settings.
When questioned by both houses of Congress, NASA's administrator replied: We will definitely send Americans to Mars by 2027.
Therefore, high-ranking officials maintained a consistent narrative when speaking to the outside world:
"China has made remarkable achievements in the aerospace field, but there is still a big gap compared with us."
It's not that we can't build a lunar space station in near-lunar orbit, but NASA's current goal is to go all out to Mars.
The moon is not our ultimate goal; the entire NASA is preparing for a mission to Mars.
The NASA administrator is appointed directly by the president, but requires approval from the Senate.
If NASA misses its deadline, the consequence will be a change of personnel, a complete overhaul from top to bottom.
There is a huge gap between landing on Mars and landing on the Moon, a gap much larger than the gap between Google and Baidu.
The most crucial point is that there is a time window for traveling from Earth to Mars, which is the closest distance between Earth and Mars.
Earth and Mars approach each other every twenty-six months.
If the Hohmann transfer method, which is the most fuel-efficient, is adopted, with the technology of Earth in 2020, the journey there and back would take about 200 days, and the stay on Mars would be more than 500 days.
It took a total of nine hundred days.
First, there are the supplies that need to be carried, and second, there are the challenges to the astronauts' mental health.
Fifty years ago, Apollo 1 took only 75 hours to reach the moon.
However, if a large amount of supplies are to be transported, it will take even longer.
Later, the Apollo 11 spacecraft, carrying astronauts and supplies, took more than four days to land on the moon.
"Nine hundred days is a long wait. Currently, none of our astronauts have the mental fortitude to endure such a long period of waiting."
With current fuel technology, it can only support a maximum of one person to go to Mars.
If a person has to spend 900 days in space, I think maybe we shouldn't give the first astronaut to Mars a "magic brain"?
The unknown effects of using the Demon Brain on the human body are unpredictable.
Armstrong only spent two and a half hours on the moon, while our astronauts this time will stay on Mars for five hundred days!
We have already chosen a radical approach to the Mars plan, so we must be relatively cautious in other areas.
My concern is that if astronauts use the "magic brain," their mental activity will become more agile.
Previous psychological judgments will become invalid.
Although it seems that using the Demon Brain will not cause significant changes in personality.
However, for a solitary voyage lasting over nine hundred days, even the slightest change could have unforeseen consequences.
NASA's idea was to provide the Mars program astronauts with the Magic Brain.
The hope is to conduct a series of experiments on Mars centered around the Demon Brain.
For example, testing the latency of viewing the magic forum.
Electromagnetic wave signals take time to transmit.
America's fifth Mars rover successfully landed on Mars in 2021, and at that time it took thirteen minutes to transmit images from Mars back to Earth.
They were curious whether there was a delay in transmitting data from the magic forum back to Earth, and how long that delay would be.
This is important because it relates to determining the signal transmission method used by the demonic brain.
Previously, the number of demonic brains was limited, and the distance between the moon and Earth was too close, so similar experiments could not produce a clear distinction.
Now that these conditions are ripe, NASA wants to conduct a series of experiments on magic on Mars.
I also want to test whether magic can be used on Mars, and how powerful it would be.
This is the most important objective.
While other countries may not know the full picture of what happened in London, they all have their own channels to get a general idea of what happened there.
And the fact that the magic was only effective within London was known not only to them but also confirmed by London authorities.
Therefore, America suspects that the spellcasting abilities gained from the brain provided by Merlin might become ineffective on Mars.
In addition, there is the difference in spell power between Mars and Earth.
Mages who gain spellcasting abilities through the "magic brain" do not possess any magical power, and there is no meditation method that can enhance their spellcasting abilities.
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