While the two spacecraft flew to Mars, the space engineering on Earth was not idle.

At the end of October, the Tianting space station officially began the manned construction phase.

In the past, the unmanned docking mode was used, which directly allowed the computer of the orbiter to control the docking process.

Tianxia has accumulated a lot in this area and has strong strength, not only playing in the earth's orbit, but also playing on the moon with the original Chang'e-5 mission, winning the name of "mankind's first unmanned docking in lunar orbit".

However, the large simulated rotating gravity module of the Tianting space station is too large to be transported as a whole, so it can only be assembled in sections, and because of structural problems, the traditional docking mode cannot be used, so astronauts are required to guide, push, and assemble it in space.

Twenty space engineers flew into space on two orbital shuttles and docked at the manufacturing center of the industrial zone, bringing the already 30-person industrial zone to full capacity.

With 50 people, a medium-sized rotating simulated gravity chamber can carry the most reasonable number of people.

Of course, it's okay to cram more people in, but that's not necessary at the moment.

The Tianting Space Station is one of the Navigator's important space projects, and the two large gravity simulation modules are the top priority of the Tianting Space Station, so the twenty space construction engineers are all the elites of the Navigator in space construction.

Space agencies in other countries have trained only professional astronauts, that is, "generalists" in space, and really have not trained such a single skill in space construction.

After all, except for the navigator, no one knew that the era of space construction would come so quickly.

The Navigator has always regarded the Tianting Space Station as a technical verification device, which is used to verify various space technologies, rather than some formal "space city".

300 meters wants to be a space city, but it's too small, that's just a name shouted by some people who don't know how to do it.

Even the construction of this large-scale simulated gravity ring chamber is an experiment to train the company's space construction engineers.

When this project is completed, there will be more space facilities to be built, and at that time, these engineers who have participated in space construction missions can become the backbone and lead other budding space construction engineers to carry out more space construction tasks.

Of course, the "attention" of the Navigator is not the same as that of other institutions and companies, because in addition to this project, it also has the task of improving the lunar base.

After the Spore spacecraft was formed, the Yishan rocket was idle, although it will not perform high-intensity delivery missions in the short term, but it is still needed for some regular time span delivery missions.

And it has to be.

After the Spore departed, it had already delivered a new chamber to the moon, which was much larger in diameter and height than the previous one, reaching a diameter of 15 meters and an altitude of 30 meters, which was a giant in the original lunar base.

The Navigator announced that the purpose of this chamber was for experimentation? But it's actually a refinery? It is not a refinery that was previously used to refine metal substances for the later manufacture of spacecraft and the construction of a lunar base, but a helium-3 refinery.

Not to mention that there has been a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology over there in Tianxia? From the previous pure energy consumption just to light a fire? To start discharging? And now there are more and more discharges, and it looks like the discharge is about to officially exceed the power consumption.

Once a technique breaks through a certain value? Then its progress will be rapid and fast.

Perhaps when nuclear fusion technology will be officially available.

Tianxia has broken through over there? Naturally, the navigator has to "keep up".

The reason why it is followed with quotation marks is because the Navigator is not prepared to start with deuterium-tritium fusion, but directly with helium-3 fusion.

To use helium-3 for nuclear fusion, you must first have helium-3.

This new refinery is for just that.

As for the technology of helium-3 nuclear fusion, there is no need to worry, there is really no shortage of technology in the pilot.

It's just that now the core of these technologies is in the hands of the "navigator" of the navigator, that is, Tang Chao.

There were originally four people at the lunar base? Later, six astronauts from the Navigator company were stationed, and now there are ten resident astronauts? It's the same number of people who landed on Mars this time.

Speaking of Mars? Another important project of the Navigator is naturally the Mars landing.

Halfway there? The Spore came with a head and tail turn.

Have you been squirting up all the time? Halfway through, it was time for the Spore to slow down.

Although it is equipped with a lot of maneuvering vents, those small vents obviously lack thrust, and it is impossible for the spacecraft to slow down into Martian orbit when it is close to Mars? Instead, it will allow the spacecraft to fly directly past Mars and farther into the starry sky.

Therefore, its deceleration method is to turn off the main engine first, and then stop the rotation of the rotating cabin, at this time the maneuvering nozzle exerts force to make it turn around.

That is, the bow cockpit is turned to the Earth, and the main thruster is jetted in the direction of Mars.

After this action, the main engine ignites again, and the rotating pod rotates again, restoring the simulated gravity.

Because the thrust of the ion thruster is still relatively small, and now the flight speed of the spacecraft is quite fast, even if it can stop all at once, it can't stop all at once, so the astronaut in the spacecraft must die, so from here, the thruster should be sprayed all the time as it came, and the reaction force in the flight direction should be used to slow down the spacecraft.

Until the speed of the spacecraft slowly slows down and it can enter the orbit of Mars.

At this point, it can be said that the flight distance of Spore has passed halfway, and Enterprise, which departed earlier, is still flying to Mars by inertia...... Uh, float.

Although Merrican added a lot of fuel to the Enterprise and took a "short route", this "short route" was only a short route for chemical fuel rockets.

Therefore, after the Enterprise engine was sprayed for enough time to increase the flight speed to a relatively high speed, the engine was turned off, and the flight by inertia could only be used in space without resistance.

No way, chemical fuel engines, especially rocket engines, consume too much fuel.

If you want to play like Spore and spray all the way from Earth to Mars, you can bankrupt Merrican Space, or just go bankrupt on Merrican.

After the Spore departed, the Enterprise could receive messages from the command center almost every day, all about the Spore at first, and gradually stopped sending them later, for fear of affecting the mood of the astronauts on the Enterprise.

But knowing some information, the astronauts can also calculate, and as Spore gets closer to Mars, their emotions become more and more agitated.

Their mission was to reach out to the four aliens before any other forces.

Friendly cooperation is out of the question, and Merriken's dictionary doesn't have that option, so it's capture.

It is best to catch alive, and if you can't catch alive, you must bring back the alien's corpse, and try to bring back the important fragments of the alien's crashed spaceship.

But now that the Navigator's ship is significantly faster than them, the people of Tianxia will be one step ahead of them...... No, it was two months before arriving on Mars!

When they get to Mars, they won't be able to catch up with the heat when they eat!!

By then, it would be possible that they had arrived on Mars, but his Meow's Spore had already returned to Earth with aliens and important alien spacecraft fragments.

That's a chicken's mission!!

Especially the two astronauts from the Space Force, they are even thinking about whether to change their course and not go to Mars, but to calculate the return route of the Spore Number, and then to intercept the Spore Number!

As a space force, their minds are full of thoughts of military struggle.

If the enemy's vanguard achieves its goal first, it will be a victory to kill the vanguard before the vanguard can send the news back to headquarters.

Their ships are not only equipped with individual weapons, but also heavy weapons.

If you really have a mind or not, maybe you can really kill the Spore.

That'...... You can even snatch back the aliens and the wreckage of the alien spaceship that were snatched by the Tianxia people.