Earth, North America.
NASA headquarters.
Director Carson sat in front of his desk, flipping through documents.
Suddenly, his office door opened. A man in a suit quickly walked in.
Director Carson looked at his assistant and took off his glasses. He then asked in a tired voice, "What is the situation like? How are the three astronauts doing?"
The assistant replied, "They're on the Moon Palace space station."
Carson twisted the pen in his hand and gently tapped the pen against his desk.
"What's their timetable like? When do the Chinese plan on giving us our people back?"
They spent at least US$1 billion for this Mars Rescue mission.
Even though China publicly said they had to fork up US$713 million themselves, who knew how much of that was true.
After all, Star Sky Technology was the only company that could travel to Mars in this time period. They could manipulate the numbers however they liked.