2035, the Moon.

A space shuttle vehicle dedicated to shuttling back and forth between the Earth and the Moon transported a large number of important materials needed for lunar infrastructure projects to the Moon's synchronous orbit.

Along with this batch of materials, there is also a group of month-based engineers who will change the guard.

The space shuttle slowly slowed down and soon came to an important operating node in the synchronous orbit of the moon, which is a huge space transit base.

This transit base is quite huge, it is a space creation with a complex structure, and its overall shape is also quite complex and weird, it is a large space base that integrates mooring, living, warehousing and transportation by hundreds of independent constructions and splicing each other, and its own mass weighs thousands of tons.

Above the base is a flat freight platform, and the space shuttle car slowly landed on the platform, unloading a freight container integrated into one, and at the same time, the ferry car also completed the docking with the passenger channel, and transferred a group of people stationed in the moon carried by the ferry car to the transit base.

Subsequently, the ferry vehicle, which completed this series of work, with the assistance of the staff of the transit base, added all the fuel needed for the return trip, and at the same time, after loading a batch of lunar resources mined, screened, and finally smelted from the moon, the space shuttle restarted the fuel engine, and a long tail flame erupted from the back of the buttocks, and crossed a curve in space, according to the re-set return orbit, and re-headed towards the earth orbit.

The staff in the transit base completed the docking work with the ferry car very skillfully, and did not stop working immediately after the ferry bus flew away. They have other work to do. I didn't even bother to chat with my colleagues in the ferry.

The recent progress of the lunar surface project has been quite rapid. Like a similar space shuttle, there will be several trips in a day, sometimes there are two or three trips, and sometimes there are even as many as five or six trips.

When the construction of the lunar base was officially started, the demand for foreign materials was amazing, and all kinds of materials that ordinary people could not imagine were extremely scarce, such as air, fresh water, food, engineering robots, core engineering equipment, etc., none of which were not lacking.

This is due to the large number of engineering robots used in the lunar base for engineering construction. The main engineering construction and operation personnel are far away on the earth in the robot operation center for remote control, so that greatly reduce the intensity of material loss in all aspects, otherwise, the various resources required in the lunar project will be greatly increased several times.

At present, the daily material needs of the maintenance personnel stationed in the lunar project and the acclimatization training personnel who will be sent to Mars have accounted for more than one-tenth of the various material consumption replenished by the lunar project.

Crews in the transit base operate quickly, and the cargo containers are unloaded on the freight platform. It was quickly grabbed by a robotic arm and attached to a cargo slide.

Transit through the cargo slide. The container was quickly projected into the void below the platform, and after a reasonable delivery arrangement, the appropriate angle and speed were formed, and finally it would be smoothly carried on the space freight elevator, along the bottomless, like a long and boundless void, after a considerable distance of transportation, and finally unloaded by the ground section of the space elevator.

Relatively speaking, the treatment of passenger personnel is much better, and they do not need to go through such a difficult and rough space projection, with the help of the small passenger spacecraft equipped with the transit base itself, they can be safely and smoothly transported to the ground base and directly into the closed lunar base.

Because of the uninterrupted operation of the same kind of operation, the state of the transit base will be affected by various external factors at any time, and from time to time it will deviate from the track and lose altitude, so it is a very important and cumbersome project to start the flamethrower device of the base from time to time and adjust the track status of the base.

Compared with the danger and toil in this transit base, the lunar ground base is in a unique state.

After a large amount of land leveling work in the base area, several huge factory bases have been set up straight on the ground, and countless various engineering robots and industrial robots have been used as the main force in the construction of the base, and they are extremely busy shuttling back and forth inside and outside the base.

At this time, although the moon is far from being as prosperous and rich as the future planned for it by the earthlings, it is clear that it has begun to take shape, and has begun to gradually form production capacity and play its unique and key role.

The construction of the lunar base is in full swing.

At this time, on the lunar base, although most of the lunar environment is still desolate and dead, after detailed exploration, it has a relatively good geological foundation for base construction, and all kinds of special resources unique to the moon, such as the plain area with extremely rich reserves of helium three elements, a lunar base with a vast area and huge construction projects, has begun to take shape, and the base is full of hustle and bustle.

Due to a series of industrial progress and development on the earth, the average cost of various outer space delivery capacity has fallen on a large scale again, and a large number of social resources have been invested in the field of space exploration, so the progress of the lunar project is quite fast.

At this time, the lunar project has achieved considerable results, the core of the living base of the lunar engineering personnel has been built, enough to accommodate the survival scale of hundreds of people, in addition to a certain number of lunar engineering maintenance personnel, can also accommodate a part of the additional manpower, for the Mars transformation project personnel, for the Mars transformation project personnel, for the early adaptation training.

Although the basic environment of the Moon and Mars is not the same, it still has a certain reference value for the staff stationed on Mars to carry out the corresponding base construction and planetary transformation.

On Mars, because the distance of the Earth is longer and more difficult, it is correspondingly much more difficult to survive and work there.

Although some of the early and basic base development work can be completed in advance by some robot teams that have been put on Mars in advance. But. Whether it's the maintenance of the Martian base. Or the comprehensive expansion of the base in the future, it is destined that a large number of staff will be continuously dispatched to Mars, so some necessary adaptive training is still necessary.

The moon base, which is relatively less difficult and a little larger, is undoubtedly the most suitable training base at this time.

After all, in addition to the inconsistency of gravity, many alien development and construction projects on the lunar base are also quite enlightening for the construction of the Mars base in the future.

The staff of the Mars base who are carrying out construction and exploration work at the Mars base at this time. Almost every one of them has had a long or short period of working on the moon.

Although there are not many fixed personnel stationed on the moon at this time, far less than the many military facilities and space factories in orbit around the earth, with a total of more than 100,000 space workers, the space personnel who have been trained and trained in the moon base are already a large number.

It can be said that the moon base at this time, although from the perspective of investment, is far from the time to return to the cost, and there is still a large amount of investment. When there are large losses, but from the point of view of training space workers. But it has already begun to have a very critical value.

As a planetary creature that is not naturally adapted to survive in space, the earth civilization wants to quickly adapt to the era of interstellar civilization, and there are similar training courses.

The lunar base is only a small step forward in the space exploration journey of the Earth's civilization, and it is only a small step forward from the activities in the orbit around the Earth.

In comparison, although Mars may not even be as eye-catching as the core industrial link of the moon in the future positioning of the earth's civilization, it is obvious that the importance of the planet Mars is far beyond the moon's moon.

This is not only because Mars is the closest planet to the earth and the most suitable planet for planetary transformation and development, once it can be completely transformed into a life star suitable for human survival in the future, it can easily reproduce tens of billions of people, which is of extraordinary significance to the large-scale development of human civilization.

More importantly, there are invisible wormholes in Martian orbit.

The existence of this wormhole itself is of key significance and value to the development of earth civilization.

The existence of this wormhole not only means the existence of a new civilized world, but also the direction of key research and development of the earth's civilization at a certain stage in the future.

It may be that for ordinary interstellar civilizations, for those spaceships wandering and exploring in the meteorite star sea, the many meteorite resources in the meteorite star sea are not attractive at all, but for the earth civilization at this time, the almost endless meteorite resources there are out-and-out treasure troves of resources, with incomparably huge value and significance.

Although the ore vein resources contained in the earth itself are already small, although it still has a certain mining and excavation value, it is a matter that must be considered in terms of mining cost and planetary ecology, etc., to carry out a certain degree of extraterrestrial resource exploration, and to grab the mineral resources needed for survival and development from outer space.

Speaking of which, at first glance, space mining seems to be a fairly tall industry, not to mention the great difficulty, and the cost seems to be quite large.

However, if you really need to calculate it in detail, the cost of space mining may be lower than that of related mining activities on Earth.

Mineral mining on the earth, not to mention the difficulty of resource exploration, the depth and purity of the minerals and other complex factors of the comprehensive cost is not low, more importantly, this cost will only be higher and higher in the future, and there will be no possibility of cost reduction, the most inexplicable is that the earth's mineral resources have their limits after all, and will only be mined less and less.

In the world of space mining, none of these problems exist.

You only need to find the right meteorite, and the key difficulty of space mining is nothing more than moving the meteorite, pushing it to a suitable location for mining, and then using gunpowder to blow it up, sorting minerals and smelting in space.

And this series of projects is not a matter at all for the current earth civilization.

The high-power engine used in space, the earth civilization can produce it independently, even if the meteorite is too huge to move and mine, the earth civilization also has explosives and even nuclear bombs, which can reduce the corresponding meteorite to a suitable mining range as much as possible.

And now, for the civilization of the earth, the only remaining core difficulty is where to find a suitable meteorite reserve belt.

You must know that in the solar system, although there are countless comets and meteorites flying around, these possible future mining resources are a little too scattered after all, and the mining difficulty is relatively large, and the reserves also have their limits, which may not be able to support the long-term development of the earth in the future.

After all, the environment around the solar system is too desolate and barren after all, except for some non-life stars that can barely carry out a certain planetary transformation project, even the closest life stars suitable for colonization from the earth are far away in the depths of the deep space of the universe more than ten light years away.

Such a distance is destined to be untouchable for the earth's civilization in a short period of time, and it is necessary to accumulate the strength of civilization for a long time, and during this period, the consumption of various ore resources is destined to be not small, and it is really unknown whether the ore resources in the solar system can be supported.

If there is no Martian wormhole, even if the earth civilization is unwilling, it will have to work hard to be a diligent space scavenger, collect every valuable meteorite resource as much as possible, and mine them all back.

However, now that there is a wormhole on Mars, and there is a vast meteorite star sea on the opposite side of the wormhole, there is undoubtedly one more choice for the earth's civilization.

Compared with the almost endless meteorite resources on the side of the meteorite star sea, the scattered and poorly exploited meteorite resources in the solar system will undoubtedly no longer attract the attention of the earth's civilization.

Compared with the extravagant meteorite feast on the side of the meteorite star sea, the little meteorite resources in the solar system are not enough to see at all.

What's more, as a necessary means to deal with the threat from the meteorite star sea, the earth civilization is destined to build defensive projects at both ends of the wormhole, since this large amount of money has to be spent anyway, of course, it is to find something to make up for it so that the loss will not be too serious.

And the meteorite of the meteorite star sea is obviously the best compensation at this stage. (To be continued.) )