Super Island Tycoon

Fortunately, this time they were not too far from Earth; beneath their feet was their home.

The main reason was Jiang Cheng really had no suitable candidates in hand; otherwise, he wouldn’t use them like this.

As the commander of this mission, Xiong Jie had to say something to everyone before officially leaving the space capsule.

Xiong Jie pulled down the visor of his astronaut helmet, revealing his rugged face.

He then glanced at his subordinates before him and said solemnly, ”I don’t want to emphasize the importance of this mission anymore. It’s been reiterated to everyone repeatedly before we came up.

So, I hope everyone will bring out their best state to face the tasks we are about to execute.

Xiong Jie stood at the entrance of the space capsule and gave all the astronauts a pre-mission pep talk.

After finishing all the instructions, he yanked open the airlock door and stepped out of the space capsule.

Outside the door was space, and looking down, he could see the Earth beneath his feet.

It’s a wonderful thing to see the Earth from this angle, able to see scenery you normally can’t see.

Xiong Jie was not concerned about the scenery beneath his feet but opened a backpack-like device on his back.

This backpack-like device he wore was a portable thruster.

In space, there’s no place to stand. Without this thruster, astronauts would just float in the universe and couldn’t even move their position.

Soon, the thruster sprayed out some gas, propelling Xiong Jie toward the distance.

After a period of spacewalking, the twenty astronauts reached the location of this mission, which was the designated construction site for the space station. Here, a large number of equipment and components were floating, and their task was to assemble these things.

Xiong Jie looked at the large number of components in front of him and knew that their task was not easy.

All these parts need to be assembled by them to form a whole.

Although these parts have been specially designed, making the assembly not very difficult,

but completing so many tasks in space is not an easy thing.

It seems that the time needed for this task will not be short. It’s important to know that these are just the first batch of components, only accounting for about one-tenth of the total.

Although the task is very difficult this time, Xiong Jie did not feel any sense of fear.

Since Jiang Cheng trusted him so much this time, appointing him as the commander of this mission,

he must show the responsibility of a commander. If even he couldn’t do it, then the task should just be abandoned.

Besides, Xiong Jie is not the kind to give up easily; no matter how difficult the task, he will grit his teeth and persist.

Now that they have reached the designated location, they will immediately begin executing the mission according to the plan.

Teams, please pay attention to your respective task areas and start the assembly work on space station zone A1.

After reaching the designated mission location, Xiong Jie issued the start order to his subordinates.

Xiong Jie’s orders were conveyed to each astronaut through equipment inside their suits.

All the astronauts began to act, constantly shuttling back and forth in space, busily conducting their assigned tasks.

The first thing they need to assemble is the A1 part of the space station. From this numbering, you can see how large this space station really is.

Using a combination of letters and numbers to name it indicates how many areas this space station will have and what kind of volume it will reach.

If you ask Jiang Cheng why it’s so large, he might tell you that this is already the result after control.

Originally, Jiang Cheng wanted it to be twice as large as it is now, but the current technology couldn’t support such a large space station, so many volumes had to be reduced.

This space station is not just a space station; Jiang Cheng plans to expand it into a spaceport in the future.

If the space station is built too small, how could it be expanded into a spaceport? That’s why it was designed to be so gigantic.

For the current space station being built, Jiang Cheng still has many plans for the future.

He hopes that this space station can take on the task of space transfer and eventually develop into a spaceport.

A spaceport is Jiang Cheng’s ultimate goal, and sooner or later, there must be one on Earth’s orbit.

In sci-fi movies, spaceships all stop inside a spaceport, not something directors shoot randomly. It’s an inevitable development trend of civilization.

It’s very difficult to escape Earth’s gravity; most of the rocket’s energy to go to foreign planets is wasted on escaping Earth’s gravity.

If there’s a spaceport, saving a lot of energy in space would be easy; just fly directly to the Earth’s nearby orbit.

In the future, spaceships will definitely be very large in size, so they cannot be docked on Earth, only parked at a spaceport and then transferred by other means.

Therefore, a spaceport is something Jiang Cheng must have; once there are spaceships, there must be a spaceport.

Of course, the spaceport is just Jiang Cheng’s vision at present, and the conditions to implement this plan are not yet met.

Building a spaceport would require unimaginable materials and personnel.

Based on the current carrying capacity of the Kunpeng-type Rocket, the number of rockets required is something even Jiang Cheng can’t afford now.

Just the personnel issue alone is something Jiang Cheng can’t solve. A spaceport requires at least a thousand people just for maintenance, and even more astronauts for construction.

Currently, Jiang Cheng only has thirty astronauts in total, with ten more needed for missions on Mars.

So Jiang Cheng cannot build a spaceport now, and even if it were built, there would be no manpower to control and maintain it.

The spaceport is still too far away for Jiang Cheng; for now, this space station is just a small-scale space transit station.

If there were really a spaceport outside Earth, humans would have completely stepped into the space age.

Humanity is still far from this goal. Jiang Cheng currently can’t build spaceships, nor can he build a spaceport for docking spaceships.

So these are things to be considered in the future. Jiang Cheng is focusing all his attention on the construction of the space station.

If this basic space station can’t even be built, forget about the spaceport.

Jiang Cheng was observing the movements of the astronauts through the large screen in front of him.

On the screen, white gas was occasionally sprayed out from behind the astronauts, and being propelled by this gas, they moved to where they wanted to go.

Building things in space comes with this inconvenience, even more troublesome than on Mars.

There’s no footing in space, so astronauts can only rely on thrusters for movement.