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Chapter 271 Space Meals for Tourists
This special lucky flight is strictly in accordance with the subsequent commercialization process, which is different from the previous manned first flight and sending the old-timers to the space station.

Wei Zhengyang and the others played in the cabin for a while, and took photos with the earth home and the motherland, as well as with other space tourists. Some people even felt urgent to urinate after being excited, and even went to the space bathroom to experience it.

The bathroom in the aerospace plane is about the same size as the bathroom on a civil aviation aircraft, but the toilet inside has become a space toilet.

The space toilet is designed according to the different physiological structure characteristics of male and female astronauts.

It can generate a stable and reliable gas flow field under the action of a fan, can complete the collection of excrement against the influence of microgravity, and realize post-processing processes such as vacuum packaging and storage.

In this way, the problem of bacterial growth and long-term storage is solved, and it is the exclusive cleaning guard for astronauts.

One of the important things that space tourists learn in the learning center is how to use the space toilet.

If you don't learn this well, the scene will be beautiful.

Now that we’ve talked about the bathroom, it’s time to eat.

The same is true for the future commercialization process. The standard sightseeing route is to fly around the earth three and a half times, plus the take-off and landing time is about 6 hours, basically starting in the morning and returning in the afternoon.

Eat an airline meal during your orbital tour... oh no, a space meal.

In the morning, eat a meal suitable for take-off at the space center.

Just like a professional astronaut.

Before professional astronauts enter the launch site, in order to ensure their dietary safety, each meal they eat is prepared by a dedicated nutritionist, usually with warm ingredients.

In addition, there are vegetables, milk, meat, eggs and other foods specially provided for astronauts, all of which have strict safety monitoring regulations.

Its purpose is to allow astronauts to have an absolute food safety before entering the launch site.

After returning from the tour, there will be a sumptuous "celebration dinner".

And when it comes to eating, not to mention the spirit of the space tourists, the people watching the live broadcast are not sleepy anymore.

It's time for them to feel abused but still love to watch.

They have already seen serious national team astronauts eating and broadcasting in space on the space station, but they have never seen eating and broadcasting directly in an aerospace plane.

The astronauts following up are not only the ground training teachers for the tourists, but also have to supervise, manage and protect them when they are in space. For example, it is time to eat, he has to open the storage cabinet to take out the food, and then guide them to use hot water refill and microwave heating equipment.

Although these are all taught on the ground, and there is even a simple assessment, but you have to pay attention to it after you come up.

After all, there is still some gap between simulation and actual operation.

Looking at the orbital sightseeing space meals distributed to them by astronauts, these space meals are relatively simple compared to the space meals that astronauts ate in the space station before.

Not to mention the comparison with the sky meal in the lunar outpost.

But compared to the early space meals, what they ate was pretty good.

Space food has been developed for more than half a century, and has been updated many times during this period. The earliest first-generation space food is toothpaste food. The biggest feature of this type of food is that it is easy to carry and eat.

Due to the late development of the starry manned spaceflight project, this generation of spaceflight food has not caught up.

Thank goodness they didn't, because they tasted and felt really... bad.

The second generation is to swallow the food in one bite, because the space food cannot have debris, which is to prevent it from being inhaled into the lungs by the astronauts.

Fanxing's first manned spaceflight mission carried this type of food, including braised pork, fish balls, braised vegetarian chicken, moon cakes, coffee, etc., a total of more than 20 kinds.

But don’t look at the many types, they are all ready-to-eat foods at room temperature, which can be eaten without heating or adding water, and are dry foods.

Even the coffee is at room temperature, just open the bag and inhale.

The third generation is dehydrated and rehydrated food, which is very close to the common food in our life and can satisfy the different tastes of astronauts.

The fourth generation is space kitchen food, because the current space station can use refrigerators and heating devices, so there are frozen, refrigerated, and thermally stable space food.

Fanxing's second manned spaceflight is already a combination of the third and fourth generations of space food frequency. Astronauts can eat hot food and hot drinks, and the number of food types has increased to more than 40.

In terms of staple food alone, there are four varieties of white rice, eight-treasure rice, curry rice, and glutinous rice.

There are 3 kinds of special sauces: spicy, sour and sweet.

Afterwards, the space meals of Starry Astronauts became more like banquets, from more than 40 kinds to 80 kinds, and then to more than 100 kinds!

For example, during the construction stage of the Starry Space Station, the space station prepared more than 3 kinds of space food with balanced nutrition, rich variety, good taste and long shelf life for the three astronauts.

There are quinoa and sweet-scented osmanthus porridge, coconut bread, pickled radish, assorted fried rice, peppery potatoes, beef soup with cabbage cabbage, spicy tuna, milky chicken rice, braised chicken gizzards...

There are too many, enough to open a space restaurant, and there are special meals according to the tastes of astronauts.

But don't look at so much, in fact, it is not blindly expanding the recipe, there is a lot of attention in it.

Because there is no gravity in space, some food with bones, slag, and powder can easily float in the cabin, which is very difficult for astronauts to handle.

Moreover, it may damage the precision instruments in the cabin. Foods such as donkey rolling and peach cakes are not suitable.

It’s not enough to just eat a lot, and all kinds of kitchen utensils and appliances have to keep up.

For example, the space air conditioning system can not only adjust the temperature of the space station, filter odors and particulate matter, but most importantly, it can also produce oxygen.

There are also space refrigerators that can use lasers and magnets to cool atomic clouds at ultra-low temperatures to create an absolute zero environment, which can not only store daily food, but also preserve scientific research samples.

There are also microwave ovens, water dispensers, folding tables, and refrigerators all available to ensure that astronauts can have hot meals at any time!
However, the cabin space of an aerospace plane is not comparable to that of a space station. People don’t care much even if passengers accidentally kick someone’s head with their shoes on while playing in the cabin.

After all, the shoes are new.

But when those shoes hit food, that's a different story.

Even if the shoes are new, who makes them wear on the feet?

So in the cabin of the aerospace plane, everyone sat in their seats to eat honestly, but in order to increase the fun of dining, their seats were deflected so that passengers could face each other.

In this way, even if they are not floating randomly, they can still interact, such as feeding each other or something.

Catch it, a burst of cheers.

Did not catch, a burst of laughter.

With this in mind, there was a stipulation in the contract they signed before take-off: foods that are prone to sticking and leaving traces such as soups and sauces cannot be fed to each other.

Food that is dry, does not drop residue, and does not stain the cabin can be fed to each other, used for "entertainment", and used to enliven the atmosphere.

And those foods that are easy to dirty the cabin can be eaten by themselves. The risk of feeding is too high, and there will be a "fine" for dirtying the cabin.

With these rules, some ideas of passengers have been restrained a lot, but the novel space environment can still make a simple space meal full of fun.

After eating and drinking, according to the standard space travel of Practical Science and Technology Aerospace Corporation, their experience is coming to an end.

(End of this chapter)