On March 1, 2022, not long after the Spring Festival, Luo Xiaoyao, Zhanfei, Tang Boyuan, Dong Zhifei, and a total of ten other asteroid mining teams came to the "Sky City" in space early, ready to embark on a long expedition.

Luo Xiaoyao and Zhanfei are now one of the best astronauts in Fuyun Group, and they are also the most experienced astronauts, basically going back and forth to space for a long time, with very good physical and mental qualities, and they are the captain and vice captain of this operation.

Tang Boyuan and Dong Zhifei are high-achieving students who graduated from the Department of Astronomy, and they are also the main decision-makers of mining asteroids this time.

In addition to pilots and scientists, there are also ten people who are responsible for piloting small spaceships, maintaining spaceships, communications, and life, etc., each of whom has his own best field, and at the same time has some knowledge of other fields, so he can be regarded as a generalist.

At this time, in space, the second generation of "Hercules", which is commonly known as Dumbo, has already been built, at this time its huge belly is slowly opening, and the mechanical arm is supplying it with materials, and once the supplies and energy are completed, it is time to set off.

"Your mission this time is not to say how big an asteroid you must bring back, your mission is more like a scientific experiment, the most important thing is safety first, don't do anything dangerous, if you encounter a particularly urgent situation, you can abandon the mission and return directly."

In the "Sky City", Li Fu was seeing them off at this time, and Li Fu didn't really care about how big and valuable the asteroid he could bring back, what Li Fu cared about was that he wanted to promote Huaxia's power to march to the asteroid through this incident, and only by getting more resources in space could he say that he could build a larger spaceship, or even build a space battleship and so on.

The asteroid belt contains countless asteroids contain huge resources, this is definitely the best stage of development, but also the most easily obtained resources, once asteroid mining is popular, Huaxia can get endless resources from space, the space age will really come.

"Yes!"

Luo Xiaoyao and others responded respectfully one by one, and at the same time they were slightly excited in their hearts, they will become the first people in human history to mine asteroids, and they are destined to go down in history, although Fuyun Group is relatively low-key, but the news is still known to the outside world, and now the world's major media are scrambling to report at this time.

"Brother Fu, the supplies and energy have all been replenished, and it's almost time to go."

Dumbo's chief engineer Chen Bin floated over, looked at the time, and then said, Dumbo outside, its huge belly has slowly closed at this time, and it has completed the replenishment of materials and energy.

"Let's go."

Li Fu lightly ordered, and watched Luo Xiaoyao, Zhanfei and other ten people float into the distance.

Soon, ten people came to Dumbo, sat down on their chairs, and fixed them.

"Connect Dumbo!"

Luo Xiaoyao lay on the chair and connected to Dumbo's control system through the virtual machine in his hand.

"The system is successfully connected and begins to recognize biological brain waves."

"The brainwaves are accurate, welcome to Captain Luo Xiaoyao, Deputy Captain Zhanfei, Tang Boyuan, Dong Zhifei and ...... crew members"

Luo Xiaoyao and others flashed a series of information in their minds, bio-sensing technology is one of the trump card technologies of Fuyun Group, and it is naturally applied to spacecraft, all the aerospace planes and spaceships of Fuyun Group are all using virtual induction control technology, if you do not realize the input of the corresponding biological brainwave binding and identification, don't even think about flying the aerospace aircraft produced by Fuyun Group, etc.

"The communication signal is normal!"

"Energy 100%!"

"Compressed air 100%"

“……”

"It's in perfect condition and ready to start."

In Luo Xiaoyao's mind, all kinds of data about the spacecraft kept flashing, which was that the spacecraft had started the self-test program and was checking the various states of the spacecraft.

"Command center, command center, here is Dumbo, here is Dumbo, Dumbo asks to take off, Dumbo asks to take off, Dumbo asks to take off."

"Permission to take off, have a nice trip!"

After obtaining permission to take off, the mechanical arm that held Dumbo around it slowly loosened, and Dumbo slowly detached from the spaceport, and then soon, its two high-powered plasma engines began to spray long white and dazzling tails.

Similar to the space plane to the moon, Dumbo first flew around the earth dozens of times, and its speed became faster and faster, until it reached the ideal speed, and then it flew directly out of the earth's orbit and went straight to the outer part of the solar system, heading for the asteroid hundreds of millions of kilometers away.

"The speed is 23 kilometers per second, the coordinates are X2323, Y9988, Z23678, and the distance from the earth is 40,000 kilometers!"

"The communication is normal, the life support system is normal, and the energy surplus is 99.8%."

"Keep accelerating!"

In Luo Xiaoyao's mind, all the data about the spaceship were displayed, and the only command he needed to give now was to accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate again.

This journey is so far away that even at a speed of 23 kilometers per second, it would take more than 2 months to reach the asteroid belt at the nearest straight distance, and if the distance is farther, more than 200 million kilometers, it will take 4 months to arrive.

Therefore, Tang Boyuan and Dong Zhifei, who are in charge of positioning and navigation, are very busy at this time, and they need to calculate the appropriate position for the spacecraft to arrive at the asteroid belt, and what speed to fly at to reduce time and energy consumption as much as possible.

This not only takes into account the position, speed, direction, mass, etc. of the spacecraft, but also the position and speed of the earth, you must know that the earth is moving around the sun at a speed of tens of kilometers per second all the time, and the most important thing is that these data are constantly changing, so the work pressure of this part is still very large.

At this time, the spacecraft had just set off for a short time, and it did not take much to adjust the angle and direction, and the energy consumed was very small, so at this time, Tang Boyuan and Dong Zhifei controlled the supercomputer on the spacecraft to continuously calculate the spacecraft's route, energy consumption, position to the asteroid belt, the Earth's orbit, position, and so on.

"Adjust the direction by 2.21 degrees and start the left wing auxiliary engine."

Taking advantage of the fact that adjusting the direction and position is more energy-saving, Tang Boyuan and the others did not hesitate, and kept in touch with the command center, the supercomputer continued to simulate various possibilities, and at the same time, the spacecraft was also constantly modifying the direction and so on.

The direction of the spacecraft is the same as the direction of the earth's revolution, and the purpose is naturally to save the distance when returning home, and fly in advance to the front of the earth's forward orbit.

"The speed is 50.12 kilometers per second, the direction is adjusted, turn off the engine, and start doing inertial flight!"

A few days later, under the continuous acceleration of 2 powerful plasma engines, the speed of the spacecraft has reached a speed of 50 kilometers per second, this speed is a speed finally reached by Tang Boyuan and Dong Zhifei and many scientists here in the Earth Control Center.

If the speed is too slow, it will take a long time to reach the small zone, and you may miss the closest distance to Earth, and it will be very troublesome to return to Earth, and you may even have to wait another year.

With the engines turned off and the direction finalized, there is nothing left to do, but the ten people on Dumbo can easily exercise, contact their families on this side of the earth through virtual machines, etc., read, study, play games, etc., which is the easiest time.

Of course, this kind of relaxation is only relative, the spaceship flies in the void, with the naked eye, it does not seem to have any changes, as if it is quietly suspended in the void, and only through the radar on the spaceship, laser rangefinder, etc., the massive planets in the solar system can be known that the spacecraft is constantly flying towards the periphery of the solar system.

This long tour is very boring and boring, and in addition, for their own health, astronauts need to exercise for at least 4 hours a day.

Exercising in space is not as simple as the ground, they need to pedal a specially designed bicycle, which is very hard, requires pulling, etc., to exercise every important bone in the body, so as not to let the calcium in the bones be lost, otherwise once they return to the earth, they will be paralyzed for life.

In addition, the scenery in the starry sky seems to be the same forever, only to turn back and drive in the direction of the earth, the earth is getting smaller and smaller, until the existence of the earth is not visible to the naked eye, and can only be observed through a telescope.

The time required to buffer the connection with the Earth side is also getting longer and longer, from the initial delay of 1 second, to the delay of 2 seconds, and the spacecraft is getting farther and farther away from the balloon.

However, fortunately, the application of the virtual machine, coupled with the fact that Li Fu has already made Chen Bin's new plant planting area, was still very smooth along the way, and nothing happened.

One month later, the spacecraft flew through the orbit of Mars, and the distance from the asteroid belt was already very close, and it was soon about to resist its destination!

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