Chapter 1252 - Into the Bugs Mouth (2/2)

But now…

They paid the price for their stupidity.

“I can only find a way to solve this through diplomatic channels,” Carter said.

The ball was kicked to the secretary of state… But it was not directly related to him. The Advanced Project Bureau of the Ministry of Defense only participated in the design of the Ares VI engine, but did not participate in the entire launch project.

And the reason why he stood here was just to leave his mark on this historical moment.

It was just a pity that the mark he left was not a positive one…

“In short, we need to calm the media. I will talk to them. Just say that Mars encountered solar wind. The contact between the ground command center and Ares has failed. It will take a while to receive communication,” the Capitol consultant said.

“I’ll speak with NASA staff. This is confidential,” Bolden glanced at several senior officials and said.

“I’ll go explain to SpaceX,” said the Deputy Director of NASA.

As long as they could convince Celestial Trade, the safety of the seven astronauts would be guaranteed.

It would be up to the secretary of state to guide the conversation.

However, the door of the lounge was pushed open, and a man in a NASA uniform ran in, panicked.

The conversation that was full of state secrets was suddenly interrupted.

“What’s the matter? Lippmann,” Bolden frowned in dissatisfaction as he stared at the man who ran in. “What’s wrong? Don’t you know to knock?”

“Bad news!” Lippmann’s breath was out of rhythm as he was panting heavily. He held onto the door frame and looked at Bolden with an ugly expression, “Washington Post, Los Angeles Daily, Wall Street Journal, and CBS… are all outside the launch center. They are demanding us to explain this incident immediately!”

“Explain?” Carter frowned. “Explain what? Are they not outside?”

As he scanned around the the senior figures in the lounge, Lippmann’s eyes widened. “You don’t know?”

“Know what?” The Capitol advisor heart suddenly sank, and he immediately rushed to Lippmann’s side and clutched onto his shoulders. “What happened outside? Tell me!”

You actually don’t know?

Lippmann smiled bitterly, took out his iPhone X, and stuffed it in the advisor’s hands.

“Go see yourself.”

The Capitol advisor quickly took over the phone, and Carter, Bolden, and the others all gathered around him.

It was a Tweet.

To be precise, it was news retweeted by a well-known blogger along with the blogger’s comments on the news…but that was not the issue.

The moment they saw the news headline.

Everyone turned pale.

The news headline said…

[Shocking! The UA manned rocket that landed on Mars actually encountered them…]