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【Respected Pathfinder BOSS has arrived at his loyal interstellar spaceship!】

【Tang Chao has entered the first truly meaningful interplanetary spaceship for mankind!】

【Tang Chao adds another super vehicle to his name—an interplanetary voyage spaceship!】

【Tang Chao will be the first aerospace company owner to set foot on Mars!】

【The first human to land on Mars—Tang Chao!】

News articles were released one after another, all related to Tang Chao, the Spore, and Mars.

Almost everyone agreed that Tang Chao would be the first person to set foot on Mars.

The Spore could reach Mars in a month, while the Enterprise was still on its way.

And Tang Chao is the BOSS of Pathfinder, the absolute controller of Pathfinder. This time, the Spore has not cooperated with any organization, and it was completely designed and manufactured by Pathfinder itself. Therefore, the entire Spore is registered under his name and belongs to his private spaceship.

The other astronauts are considered to be passengers on his spaceship, and five of them are Pathfinder employees. Although the other four are from the National Space Administration, they have been ordered to follow Tang Chao's command.

So no one dared to compete with Tang Chao for the title of 'first'.

Thus, almost everyone knew that within a month, Tang Chao would set foot on Martian soil.

On October 17th, the "Super Accelerator" engine emitted a fierce blue plume, pushing the Spore, weighing over 800 tons, away from Earth's orbit and towards Mars.

This time, the spaceship took away ten astronauts, but it didn't take away the excitement on Earth. Instead, it made the excitement even more intense than before.

"I feel like I'm seeing the future. With this kind of spaceship, can we say that humans have truly entered the space age?"

"Definitely. It only takes 20 days to get to Mars. This is a symbol of a new era. Humans have truly entered the 'space age' from the 'aerospace age'. Pathfinder should be given the most credit for this!"

"Yes, the appearance of the Spore and this Mars mission will definitely become a landmark event, marking humanity's entry into the space age, but it's not the real space age. Only when other companies also have interplanetary spaceships can humans be considered to have truly entered the space age."

"Indeed, when humans first entered space, the aerospace age was considered to have arrived. But only when aerospace technology becomes widespread and a large number of private aerospace companies begin to enter space can it be considered a true aerospace age. The space age should also require this process."

"I feel that the first time node for humanity to enter the space age should be when the Enterprise spaceship flies out of the Earth-Moon system and enters the real solar system. Although Pathfinder's spaceship is indeed more advanced, we can't be unreasonable, right?"

"But Pathfinder's Spore is really advanced! Not only advanced, but also more handsome. Although the name Enterprise is grand, its spaceship itself... is really not that good. If it were just the Starship rocket, it would be fine, smooth like a science fiction rocket, but it's docked with an American official Mars lander, and the nose cone is placed in front, this image is really beyond吐槽 (tu cao: complaining)."

"I think the matter here should be quite complicated, after all, it's related to the crossing of civilizations, but I still support Pathfinder. The reason why humans were able to enter space in the first place was because of aerospace rocket technology, and airplanes cannot fly out of the atmosphere, even if they fly at full power, they are only suborbital, so there is a technical upgrade breakthrough issue here. At this point, comparing the Spore and the Enterprise, you will know what the problem is."

"I know that the Spore's main technological breakthroughs are two: one is that it installed a simulated gravity cabin on the spaceship, which can reduce the damage to astronauts' bodies from weightlessness, and the second is the breakthrough in power propulsion devices, using mature large-scale ion engine technology, which greatly shortens the flight time of long-distance missions. The Enterprise is not good, it is still a traditional chemical fuel rocket, its Mars mission is like an airplane trying to fly to suborbital."

Indeed, every era's change is accompanied by huge technological advancements.

Previously, humans had only entered the aerospace age, but it was not until reusable rockets reduced orbital transportation costs, and the emergence of orbital shuttles further reduced the cost of manned spaceflight and made it more convenient for humans to enter space, that the aerospace age was pushed forward a big step.

Later, Pathfinder began to upgrade its technology for the moon, making it easier for humans to land on the moon, but in the end, it was still hovering in the Earth-Moon system and did not allow humans to break through the Earth-Moon system.

Until now.

The Spore has achieved the declaration of "leading mankind to take that step."

However, the starting thrust of the ion engine is indeed not good. It took twice as long as the Enterprise to fly out of the Earth-Moon system, but later, the Spore's flight speed became faster and faster.

Originally, many people were waiting to see the Spore "Deja Vu" the Enterprise, but they were destined not to see it. The two spaceships are not on the same route. Even if a simulation diagram is used to realize it, the Spore cannot fly past the Enterprise.

Although they both departed from Earth and are both going to Mars, their flight paths really cannot overlap.

Because the Earth is moving, and Mars is also moving.

The flight times of the two spaceships are different, and the flight routes must be different. If lines are used to represent them, then the Spore is a short arc, and the curvature is small, and the Enterprise is a long arc, and the curvature is large.

The two spaceships separated after flying out of the Earth-Moon system, which is equivalent to two cars coming out of one place, one going east and one going southeast.

The two spaceships also continuously transmitted videos during the flight, sharing some of the daily life and scientific research of long-distance flight.

After all, this is an unprecedented Mars mission, and there are too many things to show.

Because the Enterprise departed a month earlier, and there was no movement from Tianxia (China), the Americans couldn't wait to release a short video every day to let everyone see what's on the spaceship to Mars, how astronauts live, and how they do experiments, etc.

But later, with the appearance of the Spore, the Americans were dumbfounded. After the Spore set off, it rarely released videos.

Pathfinder released more and more videos of the Spore.

Although the Enterprise didn't release any more, it already had the videos released in the previous month. Comparing the two sides, it's easy to get the answer.

Because the Spore has a medium-sized simulated gravity rotating cabin, it can safely provide 0.5G of simulated gravity, and even be bolder and open it to 0.6G.

But for safety, half the gravity is almost enough.

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And because the diameter of the rotating cabin has become larger, the different gravity felt by the astronauts' heads and feet is much better, and the dizziness phenomenon is reduced a lot.

With half the gravity, daily life is much better, even if you need to exercise to maintain calcium and muscle loss, it is much more convenient.

Unlike the astronauts on the Enterprise, they can't even eat properly.

The Enterprise has limited load capacity and cannot eat like on the near-Earth orbit space station, especially after space cargo transportation has become easier, it is simply open to eat.

If you want fresh fruit, you have fresh fruit, if you want pizza, you have pizza, and you don't even need special space ice cream, you can take it from the supermarket, and what you take out of the supermarket refrigerator is what they eat in the space station.

Such a life is impossible to realize on the Enterprise.

So the American astronauts' food has become early bagged food.

In order to reduce weight, most of them are freeze-dried rehydrated foods, and water is used in a near-limit state of recycling.

Fruits are also exempted, and vitamin pills can be eaten to supplement vitamins.

Yes, they have to take a lot of medicine when they eat.

The food is not good, and they have to take so much medicine, it's simply killing them.

But if you don't take medicine, you're more likely to die.

The human body is indeed not suitable for survival in a weightless environment far from magnetic field protection. After a month, six astronauts showed varying degrees of physical and mental decline.

On the other hand, Pathfinder has "its own" advanced technology, and Tang Chao and the others have too many ways to deal with space illusions.

Therefore, comfortable as they are, they are also holding the first human fitness competition outside the Earth-Moon system.

Their energy and mental strength are not much different from those on Earth.

The competition is not for nothing, there are prizes.

Although the first person to land on Mars has been decided internally, the spot for the second person to land on Mars has not yet been settled.

Under normal circumstances, many people may not remember the second person to land on Mars, but now it is not a "normal" situation.

Tang Chao's identity is too special, he is not an ordinary astronaut at all, and he cannot be treated as an ordinary astronaut, so this time the second person to land on Mars has a certain probability of being promoted like the first in previous space events.