Elevator

Bell Island.

The Jianmu Sky Ladder, now officially in operation, had become extremely busy.

In the waiting hall for passenger flights, sixty tourists planning to visit the Moon sat chatting in the lobby, dressed in lightweight spacesuits.

Compared with launch rockets, which had excessive acceleration and numerous requirements, space elevator transport imposed significantly fewer requirements on passengers.

This reduction helped expand humanity's access to outer space.

Less than half a year after the Jianmu Sky Ladder officially began operating, the Federation's population in the Lunar District had risen from 24,000 to 57,000.

In the future, the populations of the Moon, Venus, and other space cities would undergo explosive growth.

Of course, this required supporting facilities to meet their targets. For example, artificial gravity technology had to be further developed and refined.

In addition, artificial food manufacturing technology had to catch up with the needs of development as soon as possible.

In fact, the Federation's artificial food technology had made considerable progress as early as 2021. Direct synthesis of starch, fats, proteins, and the like from carbon dioxide was developing rapidly.

The ability to efficiently synthesize wood artificially showed that the Federation was already ahead in this field.

It was merely that, considering flavor and certain trace components, such products had not yet entered large-scale mass production and remained at the laboratory stage.

The waiting tourists soon heard an announcement.

[Dear passengers, the flight from Bell Island to Jianmu Space Station will depart in thirty minutes. Please proceed to the boarding passage in an orderly manner...]

[Dear passengers...]

After the announcement was made three times, staff members appeared before the tourists as well. "Passengers, please follow me."

Before long, the group arrived inside the elevator cabin. Although the elevator cabin was safer than a launch rocket, the aerospace design department had