Have Two Workshops for The Colonists

Have Two Workshops

If you have two workshops you can substantially reduce the amount of time you spend waiting for research to be completed, which will enable you to complete missions faster. Make sure that your first research upgrade is 'Faster Research Speed' as this will save you a lot of time. After that it doesn't really matter, but you may want to consider 'Faster Seedling Growth' and 'Faster Mining' as both these upgrades will help you considerably with resources management.