Professor Reston swore that, even after all the Hollywood science fiction blockbusters he had watched, he had never imagined he would one day witness such a breathtaking sight in real life.
Eight slender robotic arms extended from the edges of the Moon Palace spacecraft, waving nimbly among three sets of spacecraft components like a spider's legs.
As though threading a needle, they linked more and more spacecraft components together, gradually outlining the shape of the Xu Fu colonization ship.
"That's impossible..."
Standing beside Professor Reston, Professor Phil Goethe looked as though he had lost his mind. His lips kept moving as he muttered the same words over and over.
"Assembling a spacecraft outside a space station using robotic arms... how is that possible?!"
Professor Reston looked equally stunned.
Assembling a spacecraft on a space station!
And using robotic arms to do it, no less!
It sounded like utter fantasy.
This was nothing as simple as docking spacecraft. Without exaggeration, it was an order of magnitude more technically challenging than ordinary spacecraft docking.
Without independent propulsion systems, these spacecraft components floating in outer space were hardly any safer than space debris.
One only had to consider how difficult it was to clear away fast-moving space debris to understand how impractical it was to assemble these scattered components using a space station's robotic arms.
The slightest mistake in controlling their speed or orbital altitude could cause the space station to collide with the floating spacecraft components, resulting in a catastrophic spaceflight accident!
"Could it be holographic projection technology?" Professor Phil Goethe could not help asking. "I heard they have a kind of holographic projection technology that's practically indistinguishable from reality... they demonstrated it at the Bird's Nest stadium."
"That sounds even more far-fetched than assembling a spaceship in space."
Hearing Professor Phil