Island nation, Kagoshima Space Launch Center.

It is part of the Aerospace Science Research Institute of the island nation and is the launch site of the island's deep space rockets, which have been used for decades and still carry out the launch plan every year.

Edojo calmly looked at the launch tower at the Mitsumi launch site, his expression full of pride and ambition.

A small country has two cosmodromes, and it can be seen from this small detail that their national ambitions have never been small.

They are located in an island country with frequent disasters and scarce resources, and the annual disasters remind them to have a sense of crisis, so they are always looking for new territories.

So they have an ambition that is completely inconsistent with their own size.

For them, the arrival of a new era is another opportunity for them.

Huaxia has successfully landed on the moon and retrieved Moon Rock, taking the lead in the upcoming changes.

The oil resources on Earth do not have their share, but on the Moon it is different. As long as they have the technology to develop, there is an inexhaustible supply of helium-3 there, which is endless wealth and where they fulfill their imperial ambitions.

China has the Chang'e Project, the United States has the Hercules Project, Europe has the Dawning Project, Russia has the Yuri Project, and their island countries also have the 'Moon Reading Plan'.

In the Age of Discovery, let Britain, the island country, become the empire that rules the world, and if they succeed, even if the next empire does not belong to them, they can definitely become one of the world's great powers.

Over the years, they have been pressed too hard by the United States, and once the change comes, it means chaos, and it is also their chance, an opportunity to sit on an equal footing with the world powers.

"Director Edo, the base called and said that the construction of the rocket is nearing completion, and it will be completed in about a month." A female assistant came over and interrupted Edojo's thoughts.

"yes, got it."

After the female assistant left, Edojo continued to look at the launch tower in a daze.

A month, not long, not short.

No one can say for sure, perhaps, this is where their empire set sail.

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South America, North Atlantic coast, Guyana, home to the European Space Launch Center.

Arian Launch Site 2 was busy at this time.

As the director of the European Space Agency, Jan Werner was also on the scene, following the progress of the preparations for the site.

Soon after, the rockets will be shipped in and assembled, and this time with the clear goal of starting the long-stalled 'Dawning Project'.

The Dawning program is a European moon landing program, and there are many similarities with the new American space program "Hercules program", the main contents of the program include:

Conduct a series of unmanned lunar explorations, including lunar orbit exploration, lunar soft landings, and lunar rover surveys.

Realize a manned landing on the moon and establish a lunar base.

Use the lunar base as a springboard to manned Mars exploration.

The plan is to use lunar exploration as a technical exercise, establish a lunar base, and then use the moon as a springboard to carry out a manned landing on Mars on the basis of developing lunar resources.

The plan was put forward as early as 2004, but it has been postponed under various pretexts.

After the mission of their lunar satellite Wisdom 1 was completed, there have been no new lunar probes and no lunar lander launched.

During this period, Huaxia successfully surpassed them and successfully launched the Chang'e lander, becoming the third country to land on the moon.

In recent years, the development of China has become even more terrifying.

First landed on the back of the moon, and then recently, the marching ant group successfully entered space, and the space craze appeared, and countries around the world had to pay attention to this matter.

The countries in Europe, which are still in dispute, also have to combine different opinions and unite at this moment. Their long-shelved Dawn plan has finally made new progress.

Without progress, it will not work, and now that the Huaxia nuclear fusion power station is about to be successfully put into operation, the resources on the moon are particularly important.

In the past, it was the age of oil, and then it was the new energy era of nuclear fusion, and helium-3 was the next 'oil', and no one wanted to be left behind.

"How long will it take for the rocket to be built?" Werner asked.

Claude replied just now that it would take about ten days. It takes half a month to send it here. The assistant next to him said.

"Half a month? Just right. Werner said.

As long as the probe successfully lands on the moon in this launch, it will be of great help to their future plans, and the participating countries will also give them more research and development expenses.

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Baikonur Space Centre, built in 1955 as a spacecraft launch site and missile test base for the former Soviet Union, is located in a desert region of Kazakhstan.

It was once the largest cosmodrome in the Soviet Union and the place where the dream of astronautics began.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1994, Russia signed a lease agreement with Kazakhstan to reopen the space center, which is still an important place for the world's space flight for decades.

Mendelov looked up at the super-heavy rocket standing on the launch tower, pointing straight into the sky, and his wrinkled face looked full of stories.

The rocket in front of you is Russia's latest super-heavy rocket - the Polar Bear series.

There is one more story to this rocket.

Its predecessor was the N-1 rocket prepared by the former Soviet Union for manned lunar landing, and the former Soviet Union had to suspend the manned lunar landing program after the N-1 rocket failed to launch four times in a row.

Before the moon landing program could be activated again, the Soviet Union collapsed.

Russia inherited most of the legacy of the former Soviet Union, including rocket technology, as well as most of the scientists and technical teams.

In recent years, Russia has been secretly developing and improving the N-1 rocket, and decades of technological improvements have finally succeeded. The hot spot of space exploration is once again noisy, and the Polar Bear series rockets will be the core of their new space journey 'Yuri Project'.

For the sake of the Polar Bear series of rockets, only they know how much the rocket team has suffered over the years.

The designer of this rocket was his teacher, his teacher, who spent his whole life on the rocket, and after the teacher left, he took over the teacher's work and continued to improve the design of the rocket.

After years of continuous improvement in design and testing, the technology of the rocket has matured.

The last time Chen Mo went to the sky, after the Kremlin issued an order, the space agency announced the launch of the 'Yuri program' and the re-landing on the moon.

The Marching Ant Group announced the news of the retrieval of Moon Rock, and their team heard about it.

Huaxia has mastered nuclear fusion technology, and now it has mastered the technology of landing on the moon, if they do not plan in advance, no matter how big their territory is, there will be no place for them in the future.

Their country relies on the sale of energy resources to maintain its economy, and once nuclear fusion technology appears, they are not far from collapse, so they have to make up their minds to move closer to high technology.

Mastering lunar exploration technology is definitely helpful to them, because when the era of nuclear fusion technology comes, the moon is another 'oil field', an 'oil field' the size of a planet.

"Teacher, the assembly of the rocket is complete, and it is ready to be refueled."

A middle-aged man in a research gown came over to report on the progress.

"Then it's up to God." Mendelov looked up at the polar bear rocket on the launch tower and sighed.

The story of the predecessor of the Polar Bear rocket is not good, this is the last test launch, and once it fails, it means that their efforts over the years will be in vain. As long as the test launch is successful, it means that it can carry out a manned mission to the moon.

The announcement of the successful return of the marching ant group has touched the hair of the global lunar exploration program.

Not only the United States, Russia, and Europe, but also India, island countries, and Israel, but all countries with ambition and ability are all in full swing preparing for the moon landing program, and no one is far behind.

The two nuclear fusion power stations that the Marching Ant Group has begun to build are nearing completion, and the nuclear fusion technology is about to be put into practice. This means that the era of nuclear fusion is about to open the door, and the resources on the moon have become the object of global competition.

It has been brewing for a long time, and now the wings of the butterfly have been stirred.

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