As the Mars Landing Plan's schedule grew increasingly tight, a tense, busy atmosphere settled over the entire launch center.
Yet despite the tension, no one worried about the launch plan's prospects.
As early as two weeks ago, several national ministries and bureaus, including the Ministry of National Defense, the Hua Nation Space Administration, and the Science and Industry Bureau, had established a command center at this Space Launch Center. Academician Lu himself served as chief designer, organizing and directing the implementation of the launch plan!
Academician Lu himself was in command!
When the news was first announced, everyone involved in the Mars Landing Plan was invigorated, and morale soared to its peak!
For Hua Nation's aerospace workers, that man's name had long since become more than just a name.
It was a symbol.
From the moment it was written on the first page of the proposal, every problem seemed to cease being a problem, and every difficulty became easy to overcome.
The days passed, and soon the day of departure arrived.
Towed by an engineering vehicle, a towering aerospace plane slowly rolled out of the hangar and stopped on the runway outside the launch center's command building. Ground crews and forklifts bustled around it, conducting final checks on the Rosy Glow before takeoff.
In another half hour, the first batch of components for the Xu Fu colonization ship would take off from here. The Radiance would carry them into geosynchronous orbit, where the waiting Magpie Bridge would take over and ferry them onward to the spaceport at the Moon Palace spacecraft's space station.
Once all the components had been launched, the colonists waiting on the ground would board the last round of flights, travel to the Moon Palace spacecraft to board the ship, and depart from there for Mars, tens