The journey of 56 million kilometers is quite long and lonely, and although the "Prince Barnett" can be said to be the most outstanding spacecraft of the earth's civilization at present, in the vast space, it is as ordinary as a speck of interstellar dust.

Three large-caliber ion thrusters continued to accelerate continuously for four days, so that the "Prince Barnett" finally reached the established cruising speed of 60,000 km/h within the set time.

When the Prince Barnett reached this speed, the three main thrusters could rest. It's not that the spacecraft can't continue to accelerate, but because the current cruising speed is the most suitable, and if the spacecraft is faster, when it reaches Mars, the spacecraft will slow down and become a big problem.

Traveling long distances in space is not a simple task, and it is not possible to desperately accelerate in order to save time, and the speed of the spacecraft is determined only after comprehensive consideration. As the so-called excessive, when human technology has not yet reached a certain level, too fast speed will become a talisman.

60,000 km/h is the most suitable speed for Dr. Schmitz's team after repeated calculations. Of course, the mistake is that the "Prince Barnett" uses the most advanced ion thruster technology, otherwise if the previous technology is used, even if the "Prince Barnett" flies to Mars, its speed will not reach 60,000 km/h.

The progress of science and technology often brings subversive results.

In this regard, Tang Feng is also full of expectations in his heart. He is very eager to meet the people of the Doug family on Mars and get some technology from them, so that the time for the civilization of Earth to go to space can be shortened as much as possible.

When the "Prince Barnett" reaches the established speed, the whole journey becomes even more boring. A few days ago, these astronauts still had to monitor the operation of the main control computer, and there was still some work to do, but when the "Prince Barnett" entered the established path, the astronauts had less and less things to do.

Aside from the routine extracapsule walks, which take place every two days, there is nothing on board the entire Prince Barnett to worry about for the astronauts. Extravehicular walking is an established training content that has been set for a long time, that is, to train astronauts to deal with emergencies outside the spacecraft when the spacecraft is traveling at high speed.

You know, the speed of 60,000 km/h is unprecedented in a manned spacecraft. Even the space shuttle of the past was only 28,000 km/h in outer space, which is the difference between a walk-behind tractor and an F1 car compared to the current "Prince Barnett".

Therefore, when a human manned spacecraft rarely has the opportunity to reach such a speed, walking out of the capsule is definitely a very good training content.

It's just that apart from this out-of-cabin training, the astronauts don't really have much to worry about. Every "day" just to take a regular look at the operation of the main control computer, and then the astronauts in charge of their own mess to check their own mess, there is basically nothing to do.

The main reason is that the quality of the "Prince Barnett" is too good, and since its completion, there has never been an accident caused by equipment failure. As a result, the astronauts can look out the window at the almost unchanged view of the scenery after they have finished the task at hand.

The scenery in space is really much more boring than taking a train on Earth, when you take a train on Earth, at least the scenery along the way is always different, but in a long-distance trip in space, the scenery is absolutely sour and indescribable.

It is said that watching the distant galaxy from the "Prince Barnett" is definitely a great pleasure, and the stars in the distant galaxy are really beautiful without atmospheric barriers and light pollution. But beautiful is beautiful, let you look at each other every day, even if the opposite side is a stripped Shih Tzu, I'm afraid you will be uninterested. And don't forget that this "Shih Tzu" is still almost immutable, motionless

Along the way, the only thing that has changed a little is the sun and the eight planets.

As the "Prince Barnett" gets farther and farther away from the earth, the original full screen of the earth has also begun to shrink, from the full screen to the size of a basin to the size of a basketball until now it is about the size of a glass ball. The same as the earth is the sun, and the great sun father has gradually begun to get smaller with the voyage of the "Prince Barnett".

And the only thing that has become bigger is Mars, which is gradually approaching.

However, this long and boring voyage, because of the ample preparation on board the "Prince Barnett", Tang Feng and the twelve of them did not feel much pain.

After doing their own work every day, the gang will gather in the wheel cabin to work out, feed the fish, water the flowers, and pick. When doing this work, a group of people will discuss what to eat at noon and night, so that when it comes to lunch or dinner, a variety of dishes will appear on the table.

There were even a few times when dumplings appeared on the table, which naturally caused some surprises.

As one of the favorite Chinese dishes of foreigners, dumplings can be said to be the favorite dish of these astronauts. As the saying goes, "It's delicious but dumplings, it's fun but sister-in-law" cough cough, it's wrong, what's that, the big guy just looks at the previous sentence

There are leeks in the ring cabin, and after the meat in the cold storage is taken out and thawed, it is cut and mixed with the leeks, so that the dumpling filling comes out. As for the dumpling wrappers, there is flour stored on the spaceship, and the dumplings are not like steamed buns and steamed buns, they need to be made dough, and after adjusting them with water, they can be rolled out of the dumpling wrappers.

Of course, the difficult work of rolling dumpling wrappers is naturally inseparable from the four Chinese people, including Tang Feng, but just rolling dumpling wrappers is not enough. For Anthony and his group of foreigners, the difficulty is not inferior to having children

Normally, it is Tang Feng and Du Yun who are responsible for rolling the dumpling skins. is in charge of wrapping with Sun Wei, and with the cooperation of four people, they can make enough dumplings for twelve people in more than an hour.

As for George. Anthony and them, at this time, are all spectators, of course, there are also unbelievers, such as Alexander. Comrade Borisov, this guy usually "shows his hand" noisily, and as a result, the dumpling wrappers he rolled out are not the same as thick or thin, the most important thing is the shape of the dumpling wrappers, these cosmonauts on the spacecraft are absolutely highly educated, and no one can say what kind of geometric pattern this dumpling wrapper is

Dumpling wrappers have become a miserable world, and one can imagine what kind of virtue the dumplings made by Comrade Alexander will be. Anyway, a group of people pondered around those dumplings for a long time, and they didn't say what these dumplings were thinking.

In the end, it was the initiator who gave a statement that made everyone absolutely reliable.

"Hey, comrades, I'm Alexander. Borisov's bag is not dumplings, this is an edible UFO."

Hearing this, everyone fell (to be continued.) )