I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

[Event Space Race: End of the Moon.

Mission: Complete the Earth's satellite: the moon within 48 months, conduct manned exploration and establish a base that can station two people; completed.

With a solid foundation gained through continuous development, the base's aerospace technology developed rapidly under your leadership, and a successful landing operation was carried out on the Earth's satellite moon.

Landing vehicle: Jiuzhang, number of landing personnel: 4, landing mass: 152 tons.

You won the third place in the race to return to the moon. Although you were late, you had an absolute advantage in terms of technology and scale.

Comprehensive evaluation of reputation, scientific and technological impact, technical level, etc. is in progress, please wait...]

In the lounge, Lin Ju was a little nervous lying on the sofa, waiting expectantly for the system's calculation process.

According to the original mission, the moon landing needed to be completed by July 2019, but now he is almost 20 months ahead of schedule and completed the mission in only 28 months, which is almost two and a half years.

Of course, the original plan was to use the XN90 to complete the landing, but the plan could not keep up with the changes. The competition between the Artemis Project and the Dawn Project pushed the time forward. Although the Nine Chapters were still powerful, they were still far behind the XN90.

There is no doubt that the reward this time is definitely worse than expected, but I think it shouldn't be too bad.

From satellite launch, manned space flight to moon landing, the rewards of this main-line phased mission system are very generous. The last manned space flight was completed with the NPAE engine, and the rewards for completing the moon landing are definitely better.

NPAE is known as the last generation of the ultimate jet engine, and the A100 used for space navigation is almost the ultimate. If propulsion technology comes next, perhaps only nuclear fusion engines can be regarded as leading in terms of generation difference, right?

But this is not good news for Lin Ju. How many new technologies and new materials do nuclear fusion engines need? Even if all the answers were given, it would definitely be a headache to copy.

Although the derived dividends will definitely not be lost, the higher the technology, the higher the mission will definitely be. Landing on Mars is fine, but it would be outrageous to engage in interstellar colonization.

Of course, this is not to say that it is technically impossible, but that the base simply cannot provide enough manpower and economic strength. If you want to colonize the interstellar world, you almost have to have RDA, Umbrella, or something almost unscientific like the Riverland Corporation in the movie Prometheus. With huge organizational power, those fictional super corporations are much more powerful than the Freemasons in conspiracy theories, and they simply have power that transcends political entities.

The base won't work, at least not on Earth. Humans can't accept such a human-like system.

The settlement time of the system was unexpectedly long this time, which made Lin Ju couldn't help but have random thoughts in his mind. He didn't know how long it took before he heard the sound of the system again.

[After comprehensive evaluation from many aspects, the comprehensive rating of this task is: A (relatively excellent)

Although the Tianmu-3 advance landing operation is very advanced compared to the current situation in the world, there is still much room for improvement. Please continue to work hard.

Based on your task completion and reward bonuses for some outstanding performances, the following rewards will be given this time:

Chiren is an ultra-nano material that breaks people's understanding of traditional molecular structures.

"Chiren" was successfully developed by "Guang Way Fishing Gear" in 2119. It was originally intended to be used in the ultra-high pressure and ultra-deep sea water of Europa's moon 'Europa' to fish for a sulfur species that lives at a depth of 150 to 200 kilometers. The basic fish species has been highly sought after by the scientific and medical circles because it lingers near submarine volcanoes all year round. The extreme environment allows it to contain a variety of high-value compounds in its body.

The technical foundation of "Chiren" stems from people's further pursuit of nanomaterials. After nanopolymer materials represented by carbon nanotubes have developed to their extreme, Optical Way Fishing Gear tried to use the gravity of micro space to compress the material gap again, and finally obtained "Red Ren".

This is a "giant" hollow carbon nanotube with a diameter of 1 micron. Compared with traditional carbon nanotubes, its hexagonal structure is asymmetric, stronger, and the structure is more stable. The diameter can be expanded to 1 Micron, laying the foundation for macro-engineering applications.

The most outstanding feature of "Chiren" is its high temperature resistance and scalability, as well as good flexibility and high-temperature superconducting properties. Through ultra-fine laser beam weaving, cables with considerable thickness can be made, which is enough to build a space elevator. Super material.

This purpose far exceeded the expectations of Light Way Company, but at that time, the earth had already built a hollow tower with a thickness of only one atom from the surface to the synchronous orbit through strong interaction force, so this backward technology was not needed.

In the end, "Chiren" was patented by a mining company and used to manufacture rope nets for dragging asteroids.

Note: "Chiren" requires the ability to control microscopic gravity in order to be manufactured, which means a major breakthrough in microphysics is required.

But "Chiren" represents the possibility of a space elevator, and mankind will gain unprecedented resource projection capabilities. This is an epoch-making technology.

New mission: Land on Saturn’s sixth satellite: Titan, and organize an expedition team of no less than 10 people to land on it.

Mission period: 96 months; mission notes: There is a probability that there are still living things surviving, please be prepared accordingly. 】

[Event: Space race, Mars starts.

Passive mission, landing on the first planet is an inevitable step for mankind and is of great significance. 】

[Summary of unnatural information: Mars, Titan.

Note: Although the universe is young, it is unimaginably long for intelligent beings. Life will always disappear, but their spirit will last forever.

The universe is big enough to accommodate all impossible coincidences, and nothing is worthy of surprise.

Countless people in the world have raised Feynman's conjecture, but the answers are not the same.

The long-term mission begins: tracing the footprints of civilization.

Find the truth in the universe and unlock the meaning of life. 】

In the empty lounge, Lin Ju's eyes gradually widened and he stared at the white ceiling in disbelief.

If Plain Zero was still secretive, this time the system almost told him clearly: there are aliens and alien civilizations, and they are very close.

What does "there is a probability that there are still living things surviving" mean?

The life forms in this sentence obviously do not refer to microscopic life forms such as bacteria, that is to say... living aliens? ? !

This terrible conjecture made his scalp numb and goosebumps spread all over his body as soon as it came up, and his mind went blank.

Moreover, landing on Titan is much more difficult than landing on Mars. The closest distance from the Earth to Saturn is about 820 million kilometers, which is 15 times the distance to Mars. The difficulty of guarantee and the risk of flight increase sharply.

Moreover, Saturn's revolution period is a full 29 years, and the closest opportunity for Saturn to oppose the sun is only once every 13 months, so there are only a few departure dates to choose from.

96 months is 8 years, which sounds quite long, but considering that even traveling with a nuclear engine takes several years, doesn’t it mean that the preparation time is only four to five years at most? This is an ultra-long-distance deep space voyage!