However, it is one thing to have confidence or not, and it is another thing to not work hard, after all, giant ants cannot threaten the survival of mankind for the time being, but Europa is the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of humans!

Aliens threaten all mankind, not China, and resisting the threat of aliens naturally cannot rely on China alone, but requires the joint efforts of all mankind - the Mars program is currently the only one that is likely to successfully intercept Europa, what if the Americans are willing to join?

Although the Americans have not expressed their position, since the Northern Capital adopted the plan, Beiyuezhou has stopped all the work that can be stopped, and everyone's energy has been put on the Mars program.

However, the Mars plan has just been released, and the corresponding design plan still needs time, and there can be no construction without drawings, so the industrial team of Beiyuezhou is fully prepared for materials, and as long as the drawings are in place, construction can start immediately, and the military industry department even has a rare holiday, the only purpose is to let the employees recuperate.

At the same time, the design department is in full swing, working overtime to hurry up the design drawings according to the requirements of the plan, but the design is not an overnight thing, and the design institute needs enough time to sort out the design drawings, so as not to leave undue design hidden dangers.

It takes too long to design from scratch, and the time limit given by the military is too short, it is simply impossible to complete the design in the conventional way, and the only way is to modify the existing mature ship type!

The design drawings of several active space warships are from the design institute, and the designers are very familiar with several types of warships, but it is not so easy to change the design drawings to the structure required by the military.

On June 4, 2027, the President of the United States signed the cooperation plan for the Mars program after taking full account of the opinions of all parties.

At the time of signing, he had only two aides and a secretary at his side, but the wartime state gave the president great powers, and the relevant departments immediately began to communicate with the Chinese side about the implementation of the Mars program.

In the next few days, the members of the Al-Qaeda group signed and approved the Mars program, and on June 7, the last member of the al-Qaeda group signed the cooperation plan, and since then, the Mars program has entered the stage of international cooperation, and this day has also been designated as the anniversary of the Mars program in later generations.

On June 10, 2027, the first engineering ship of the Mars program will start construction at the North Moon Island Orbital Plant.

This is an engineering ship for pre-preparation, which is planned for the exploration and pre-construction of Phobos and Phobos. In order to rush for time, this battleship is not newly built, but directly refitted on a half-completed 026-class battleship!

Nearly 1,000 engineers from the Beiyuezhou base and the international base participated in the modification work, and they were divided into three groups and worked 24 hours a day to complete the modification in the shortest possible time.

The industrial system on the ground produces the equipment needed for the modification one by one and sends it to the rail factory.

It's not enough to have a spaceship, you also need someone to operate the spaceship!

There is no shortage of fighters in the military, but the vast majority of military personnel do not have the basic conditions to explore satellites, which requires sufficient expertise.

However, due to historical reasons, the military has always retained some special forces, including professional exploration troops, and the northern capital selects the most suitable people as quickly as possible.

However, most of these people work on the ground, and basically no one has ever been to space, and if you want to send them out, you must undergo a period of space training!

Even if the training course is reduced to a minimum, it will take a year and a half, and the training will not be completed before the spaceship departs!

This is sad for the northern capital, and in desperation, the northern capital simply sent all the people to the northern Yuezhou, transferred the good performance into the fleet, and sent two more people to assist when the task was carried out.

If it can't adapt to the space environment, it can only be sent back to Earth.

Geological talents are relatively simple, at least they can be solved within the military, and it is not so easy to find candidates in astronomy, so you can only find suitable personnel from the astronomical community.

The military has also opened a space major in military academies in recent years, but the first batch of cadets has not yet graduated, and the focus of these cadets is not astral research.

After the news spread, the entire astronomy community exploded, from graduate students in their early twenties to old professors in their seventies and eighties, all of them enthusiastically signed up, eager to sign up on the first day and set off with the ship on the second day!

Doing astronomy is very monotonous, and you even have to endure loneliness, but those who engage in astronomy have a romantic heart!

An old professor said it well: "I have been engaged in astronomy all my life, but I have never even been out of the earth, and I finally waited for such an opportunity to see Mars with my own eyes, and I will die blindly!" ”

There are many, many astronomers with this attitude, since the development of Beiyuezhou in the northern capital, the astronomical community has always hoped to take advantage of this shareholder wind to soar, but the development of Beiyuezhou is to fight against aliens, and the military must be the first priority at all times, and the wish of the astronomical community has not been realized.

Now that there is such an opportunity, how can everyone not be enthusiastic?

However, there is also a shortage of training time in the astronomical community, and there are several suitable candidates among the astronauts before the development of Beiyue Continent, but these people are all professionals who are in short supply in the military, and they are currently holding senior positions in the fleet, and everyone has a job in their hands, and sending any of them out is a loss for the military.

In desperation, the military could only select the best physique among the qualified people and send it to Beiyuezhou, and continue to pull out the taller among the shorties.

All of them were elated, and all of them were depressed, a group of old professors and old experts blew their beards and stared, and almost collectively found Zhong Nanhai - before the aliens came, astronomy was an unpopular profession, and after the appearance of aliens, astronomy received due attention, and this group of old people said that it was definitely not a joke to find Zhong Nanhai, and they found a brother there, and a brother had to be appeased.

In the midst of the chaos, the preparations are finally on track.

On June 18, 2027, the design of the first super nuclear power engine will be finalized, and the keel will be laid at the Beiyuezhou Rail Factory.

In order to shorten the design time, this engine uses proven large nuclear engine technology, and hundreds of single engines are arranged in an array of thrusters, all working at the same time, driving the mass of 100,000 tons is not a problem at all.

Even if some of the engines are damaged, at most a little acceleration is lost - don't think that you only need to pile a large number of engines together, the more engines are arranged, the higher the requirements for energy supply lines, fuel release systems and control systems, and it also involves the design of fuel tanks, the number, size and location of fuel tanks need to be reasonably designed, and it is not a simple stacking of engines.