Chapter 985 Astronaut Training Center
Director Carmen took the big cucumber and walked to the pool to clean it, breaking it into pieces.
After handing them, he smiled and said, "It tastes great, I like to use them to make salads.
I ate these with apples, bananas, and kiwis every day and lost fifteen pounds in two months. The doctor said that my blood lipids are a little high, so it is best to eat less meat."
The old man looked at it with a piece of cucumber and asked in confusion: "Can such a long cucumber be eaten?"
"Yes, their genes have changed in space.
The change speed is about thousands of times that of the earth, so different forms are produced, and in fact this is still a cucumber.
The content of trace elements such as vitamin C and copper and iron is 7% to 20% higher than before, and there is no need to use pesticides and fertilizers, which is natural and healthy.
These plants have undergone special space filtration treatment, which has high yield and high temperature resistance, strong drought resistance and anti-viral invasion, as well as many other advantages.
We are trying to promote this type of special plant. There are more than 2,000 acres of land in Texas, all of which are planted with lab-grown space plants, green peppers, potatoes, eggplants, and all of them are.
Look at the fruit on your head, it looks like a watermelon. In fact, it is a pumpkin. I have eaten it once as a pumpkin pie..."
When Han Xuan heard his words, he raised his head and looked up.
The fruits hanging on the shelves, separated by green and black stripes, aren't they like watermelons?
Holding the cucumber in your hand, it tastes crispy and sweeter than the cucumbers on the earth. I don’t know if this is a psychological effect.
He asked Director Carmen and said, "If there are any extra seeds, can you give me some? I will buy them from you.
I also have vegetable plantations at home, and these plants look interesting.”
"Of course, I'll send you some seeds later.
The seeds that have been in space in the first place may not be given to you, they are too small and are not with me.
The plants you see are all cultivated by agricultural and biology experts after returning to the earth.
For example, these eggplants are artificially targeted and will take four to six generations to stabilize breeding of varieties.
Generally speaking, three generations of varieties can be cultivated in two years, so it usually takes about four years to select and breed a new eggplant variety.
We sent hundreds of plant seeds to space, not all of them mutated in a good direction, and some of them degenerated.
If humans were not in a vacuum state and could only live for one minute, I really wanted to see what kind of mutations would happen to humans.
My former director wanted to send certain vital microorganisms and algae to space, but that plan was rejected.
Some experts are worried that some mutations that humans cannot control, such as the emergence of some super virus that can exterminate humans.
Zoologists also do not allow cockroaches to be sent into space, because they are already very perverted and may become more perverted after mutation.
Did you know that headless cockroaches can survive for weeks, but end up not dying from headlessness, but starving?
After zoologists told me, I realized that even the Arctic they can survive, which is amazing.
Space is a wonderful place. This year we have begun to cooperate with Russia and prepare to jointly develop the International Space Station. We believe that many more wonderful things can be born in the future..."
Scientists have named these vegetables and fruits, such as "space lettuce", "cosmic carrot", "interstellar tomatoes", "space black sesame seeds", "space knife beans", etc. The names are very high-end just by listening to them.
In addition to vegetables and fruits, there are also many flower seeds that have been to space in the greenhouse, such as the water lilies, drunken butterfly flowers beside Han Xuan.
When we learned that the yield of space soybeans is 30 to 40% higher than that of ordinary soybeans, and the yield of rice is 20 to 30% higher than that of ordinary rice.
Han Xuan felt a little moved, and suddenly he had the idea of cooperating with Nasa to develop new crops.
Most of the high-yield crops are made of genetically modified today, which is essentially different from the mutation of space seeds.
Relatively speaking, space seeds are safer and do not make people worry about whether they are harmful to themselves.
This kind of R&D project has invested huge initially, but if breakthroughs can be made in some aspects and the genes of these space plants can be stabilized, it means that a prosperous road with abundant wealth will be placed in front of Han Xuan.
Today I am here to accompany my grandfather. I will suppress my thoughts and not mention them for now.
After walking around the botanical garden, Carmen and the old man walked to the side and talked mysteriously.
Han Xuan was led to the warehouse to get more than 40 plant seeds in sealed glass bottles.
Leaving from the Space Botanical Garden and entering the car, it had not reached its destination for several minutes.
Han Xuan asked the old man and said, "Where are we going now?"
I always feel that you are a little strange today. Did you not tell me something?"
"You will know later..."
The old man stopped talking after he said that, with a smile on his face
There is a lonely base on the barren plain in winter.
Han Xuan was curious that there was an airport and a runway there, and a large white transport plane was parked there.
The model should be the Il76 transport aircraft developed by the Ileushen Design Bureau in the 1970s of the Soviet Union.
When I approached, I found that the fuselage had "nasa" written on it, and the same abbreviation was written on the door of the exterior wall of the building, with the words "training center" added at the back.
Han Xuan was confused about his old man, what did he do to bring him here?
Just launching satellites, not manned space flight, can it be that it is necessary to pick astronauts?
Holding Fat Ding, he turned his head and asked angrily: "We have arrived, can you say it now?"
The old man didn't keep it behind closed doors this time, pointed to the transport plane and said, "We want to sit on that one."
If you want to experience the feeling of weightlessness on Earth, taking a plane is the best way to fly. The gravity of the earth will be offset and people can float up.
It's probably like that. I heard Mr. Neil Armstrong say it at the party. I thought it was quite interesting, so I took you here to experience it and it cost me three million dollars."
"What? Will people die in a vacuum??"
Irving, in the passenger seat, said shockedly, and then reacted: "Armstrong? Armstrong, who had been to the moon back then?"
Apollo's plan was completed and successfully sent twelve astronauts to the moon, which means that the moon had been stepped on by twelve people.
Armstrong was the first one. More than thirty years ago, he inserted the American flag on the moon and left his first footprint.
"Who else besides him?"
Han Xuan gave Owen a angrily glance: "Let you read more books. Vacuum is vacuum, weight loss is weight loss, these are two things..."
He looked at the large transport aircraft.
Han Xuan had been on a plane dozens of times, but he never knew how to experience weightlessness when taking a plane. He had never heard of it.
With questions, Director Carmen got off the car and introduced the middle-aged man who was waiting at the door and said, "This is Instructor Eugene Schmidt. He will be responsible for taking you on the plane to experience it later..." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!