In fact, since the successful third lunar landing operation in May last year and the successful testing of the Mars spacecraft, the manned Mars exploration program has entered the countdown stage.

In the past year and a half, almost all the work on Princess Belle Island has been revolving around the manned Mars exploration program, except for the necessary infrastructure work and scientific research activities. During this period, the "Star" series of heavy-duty carrier rockets lifted off a total of 21 times, transporting various materials with a total weight of more than 420 tons to the "Prince Barnett", which was mainly to transport fuel to the "Kunpeng", of course, there were also more than 100 tons of materials, which were important materials used by Tang Feng and his 12 people to maintain their lives for four and a half months.

During this time, the "Prince Barnett" also came back with great good news, that is, the space plants that were tried in the wheel cabin have also been successfully planted.

Back in the construction of the "Prince Barnett", Dr. Schmitz had already thought about growing plants in space. However, compared to pure space planting, it is undoubtedly much easier to grow plants on the "Prince Barnett".

Because although human beings have long done experiments on planting plants on the International Space Station, and have achieved success, those space plants are some plants with relatively short growth cycles, such as radishes, baotou and so on.

In the rim cabin of the "Prince Barnett", it has gravity, although the gravity of the rim cabin is only one-third of that of the Earth, which is about the same as the gravity of Mars, but it is enough for planting plants.

After a year and a half, in addition to more than 10 kinds of plants including white radish, carrots, baotou, tomatoes, onions, leeks, spinach, etc., these plants have been successfully harvested for several seasons, and after testing, they are almost no different from the plants planted on the earth.

With the existence of these plants, the living conditions of astronauts can be greatly improved, and even in addition to these vegetables, the astronauts working on the "Prince Barnett" even grow fruits such as strawberries and melons, and what is even more excessive is that a Brazilian botanist stayed on the "Prince Barnett" for five months, and actually successfully cultivated the world's first space watermelon in a functional warehouse in the wheel cabin

This Brazilian botanist came to the "Prince Barnett" at the end of last year with five other astronauts, and the current "Prince Barnett" is more popular than the International Space Station, after all, the "Prince Barnett" was built, and the facilities inside are not comparable to the "ancient" International Space Station, and the space on the "Prince Barnett" is very large, and there is a rim cabin with one-third of the earth's gravity, so the current "Prince Barnett" is much more popular than the International Space Station.

The name is Algio. Silva's Brazilian botanical experts stayed on the "Prince Barnett" for five months, not only successfully planted the first batch of space strawberries and space melons, but also used the air conditioning system in the wheel cabin to form a temperature environment with a large temperature difference between day and night.

Whether it is the successful cultivation of space vegetables or space fruits, it has undoubtedly added countless benefits to this manned Mars exploration program. The presence of these plants can not only provide sufficient fresh oxygen for the "Prince Barnett", but also allow the 12 astronauts to enjoy fresh vegetables and fruits at all times. The most important thing is that if the plants are successfully planted on the "Prince Barnett", then the plants should also be successfully planted in the small forward base on Mars.

Of course, whether it is those botanists or astronauts, they don't know that Tang Feng still has such a big killer weapon as Star Core Space. In fact, just the existence of the star core space, let alone vegetables and fruits, it is not a problem to eat whatever you want.

It's just that that thing will never see the light of day now, so it has to trouble the scientists and astronauts to work hard.

But then again, Zifei Fish Anzhi Fish's Joy? Maybe people are happy to do this kind of research in high space.

If you love to study, you can study it, anyway, it won't cost me Tang Feng's money, you can toss as much as you like, as long as you don't toss my "Prince Barnett" for me.

In fact, in addition to carrying supplies to the Mars spacecraft, if other astronauts want to go to the "Prince Barnett" to do research, sorry, your country's space agency has to pay for it. The launch costs and the various supplies for the astronauts to live on the "Prince Barnett" are all responsible for the countries where the astronauts are located, and Tang Feng, even if he has money, will not be such a big wrongdoer.

If I provide you with a large spacecraft worth more than $80 billion, it will be enough to be worthy of you

Don't you see, the International Space Station has been built for so long, why don't you let the Chinese people go up to do research for Mao? To put it this way, our "Prince Barnett" is the real "International Space Station"!

But then again, Tang Feng's generosity has also been greatly rewarded. The successful planting of space plants is one of them, and a very important reward is that the scientists successfully brought 10,000 freshwater fish eggs onto the "Prince Barnett", and in a short period of time, these fish eggs successfully hatched more than 30 freshwater fish, of which more than 20 have lived freely in space for more than a year, and they are still alive and well

In fact, as early as 2008, Huaxia's Shenzhou 7 had successfully hatched freshwater ornamental fish in space, but Shenzhou 7 only stayed in space for less than three days, and the nine ornamental fish that hatched and successfully survived seven were only in space for more than a day.

But this experiment on the "Prince Barnett" was different, although the hatching rate of these eggs was very low, but it did hatch more than 30 freshwater fish, and more than 20 of them lived in the sky for more than a year. What does this mean? It's simple, and it's precious!

Because of the successful cultivation of these space fish, astronauts have another fresh fish option when they can have vegetables and fruits to eat

It can be said that the successful cultivation of both space plants and space fish has made the originally long and lonely journey to Mars exciting. (To be continued.) )