Winning a round back

The press conference held by NASA hit like a bomb thrown into a lake, sending shock waves around the world.

The BFR super rocket could carry 550 tonnes into low Earth orbit!

The Ares Program would begin within a month, sending the Life-Support Unit to Mars!

You were never a match for us!

Director Carson's remarks conveyed three messages, and every single one sent the North American media into a collective frenzy.

Many outlets, such as The New York Times, had recently been tearing into NASA's inaction in their current affairs sections. Now they instantly changed their tune, singing the praises of the Ares Program and Space-X.

Spaceflight was Earth's future, and America's pride.

Once, they had defeated the aggressive Soviet Union on the Moon. Now, Hua Nation's rise was challenging their supremacy step by step, and no American who took any pride in that era could turn a blind eye.

They had cursed NASA's inaction not out of hatred, but out of frustration at its failure to measure up! It was handing over half a century's advantage on a silver platter!

Now that NASA, which had made little progress for so long, had finally shown some backbone, the Americans following the Ares Program naturally stopped cursing it and gladly offered flowers and applause instead.

The people of Hua Nation had landed on the Moon?

They had taken a share of our exclusive glory?

Sorry, that was something we were already done with back in the sixties. Our sights were now set on distant Mars!

A place you couldn't even get a probe to!

After NASA's press conference, major next-generation aerospace technology companies such as Space-X and Blue Origin held press conferences of their own, showcasing their specialties in spaceflight.

There was Elon Musk's BFR super rocket, for example, and