United States.

Houston ground command center.

The moment the voice from Mars was heard, the entire Houston command center burst into thunderous applause!

"God bless America!"

Looking at the scientific researchers in front of him who stood up and applauded vigorously, Professor Chris murmured to himself with a trace of tears in his eyes.

Director Moulton also had a relaxed smile on his face.

His position as director was saved!

Professor Chris slowly stretched out his right hand and pressed it in the air to signal.

The noisy applause and discussion in the Houston Command Center gradually stopped. Every scientific researcher's face turned slightly red, and the eyes looking at Chris shone with excitement.

When the Houston command center was completely quiet, Professor Chris swallowed slightly, reached for the microphone, turned on the radio switch and said softly: "Houston received! Congratulations! You are the heroes of America!"

"Now, I announce that the outbound operations will begin!"

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

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

…

"The United States Never Says Defeat! The Pathfinder Plan was successfully implemented and has successfully landed on the Utopia Plain!"

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

"One small step for America, one giant leap for mankind!"

"The United States will eventually rise again!"

The moment the Pathfinder series successfully landed on Mars, all the newspapers rushed to print the day's newspapers!

The overwhelming news instantly overwhelmed every American!

As President Abbott said that day: "I will not allow any American to not know this news!"

The moment the news report came out, countless American citizens spontaneously poured into the streets and began to celebrate this historic moment!

The Twitter server even went down because of this incident!

"Hahahaha! I knew it! Sometimes NASA doesn't even know how capable they are if they don't force it!"

“God be with America!”

"Xia is still landing on the moon, right? Hahahaha, by the time their Moon Palace plan is implemented, our American flag of freedom will have been planted in every inch of Mars!"

"How did you lose with Fei Longqian?!! Tell me, how did you lose!!"

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

"I declare your declaration valid!"

"..."

…

Meanwhile, Mars, Utopia Plains.

The door of the Pathfinder 1 landing module slowly opened, and the three astronauts, wearing bulky spacesuits, walked down the ramp and walked down 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 most similar to the Earth in the solar system, the length of a day on Mars is almost the same as that on Earth, with about 40 minutes longer.

"It shouldn't be too late today, right?"

Bruno roughly estimated the time and whispered on the team's radio channel: "It will take at least about ten hours to deploy and build the Mars module."

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

Joey thought for a few seconds and responded quickly: "If we include the consumption of our out-of-vehicle operations, we still have about two days of oxygen left."

"That is to say..." Andrew's expression changed slightly, "If we want to ensure safety, we must complete the construction of the Mars module 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, plus the time spent on the road...

"So be it."

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

The American Mars capsule consists of five truncated cone-shaped capsules.

Among them, the No. 1 cabin is the most critical. It contains a large amount of scientific research equipment and even the main control computer is also in the No. 1 cabin.

The second cabin is the astronaut living module, the third cabin is the warehouse, the fourth cabin is the Mars planting unit, and the fifth cabin is the airlock.

By then, several astronauts will try to grow some crops on Mars to verify the possibility of colonizing Mars in the future. www.bǐqυgetν.℃ǒm

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

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

…

At the same time, Xia State’s First Laboratory.

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

Unlike ordinary factories, there is not a single worker inside these factories, only rows of flexible manipulators and various mechanical processing equipment.

Lu Yongchang stood at the door of a factory, looking at the scene inside the factory, with a flash of wonder in his eyes.

One after another, the robot arms flexibly grabbed the workpieces on the crawlers and controlled 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."

"Controlling 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 the others prepare to officially launch the lunar mining plan the day after tomorrow!"

Before Fang Xu could reply, Ling 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.
Chapter completed!