You're a Respectable Opponent

A silver-white egg-shaped capsule was sitting at a booth in the exhibition hall.

This was the X-2 life support system from Space-X, built and improved on the foundation of the original life support system.

After the failure of the Ares program, the cooperation between Space-X and Blue Origin ended. After Amazon threw a bunch of resources into Blue Origin, Musk found a Japanese aerospace technology company based in Tanegashima as a new partner. Thus, the X-2 machine designed for lunar missions was born.

There was no doubt that this was a wise decision.

Because of the failure of the Ares program, it was impossible to initiate a new colonizing mission on Mars in the near future.

Even if the United States Congress agreed, the "New Virginia" incident investigation committee members would protest and cause them trouble.