The Jinling Aerospace Assembly Center.
This high-tech factory, covering more than sixteen acres, brought together components for cutting-edge aerospace equipment from across Hua Nation. With cloud information services supplied by the Star Sea-1 quantum computer, it achieved fully unmanned, standardized production through an array of automated equipment, including assembly lines, multi-axis electrically driven robotic arms, logistics vehicles of various sizes, and cargo drones.
It was like a furnace, melting down and casting the dreams of every citizen of the republic for the cosmos.
Standing in awe beside the towering walls of this enormous facility, Director Chang Hezhi, one of the leaders of the Mars Landing Plan, waited quietly alongside Academician Yuan Huanmin and a group of senior engineers and executives from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
About ten minutes passed.
At last, a black sedan, escorted by several military vehicles, entered the industrial park with little fanfare and stopped outside the factory building precisely on the hour.
As the doors opened, a dignified elderly man and a young man stepped out of the car almost simultaneously.
Needless to say, any citizen of Hua Nation would recognize the elderly man.
The same was true of the young man.
In fact, it was not just the people of Hua Nation. His academic achievements, so incongruous with his age, had long since won over the international academic community. Anyone who followed science news would instinctively call out his name upon seeing him-
Or, at the very least, they would know the name "Professor Lu."
Noticing the solemn expressions on everyone's faces, the elderly man smiled kindly and spoke.
"No need to be so solemn. I've just come to have a look... Is that Colonial Module inside this building?"
Noticing the elderly man looking his way, Lu Zhou smiled and nodded.
"It's