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The astronauts on the Enterprise felt like they had the worst luck lately.

With the addition of aliens, their lives became even more difficult.

The population increased, and they were VIPs, so the astronauts' usual food had to be reduced. Because these four VIPs preferred green food, they took out all the "green"-related food for the aliens to eat.

Originally, they weren't too satisfied with the freeze-dried vegetables, but since these freeze-dried vegetables, especially the green ones, were all eaten by the aliens, they couldn't get the relevant nutrients and trace elements, so they had to take pills.

Although freeze-dried vegetables don't taste as good as fresh vegetables, they were not bad on this lonely, empty, long-distance space voyage to Mars. Besides, no matter how inferior they were to fresh vegetables, they were much better than taking pills directly.

Besides eating and drinking, there were also problems with the spaceship itself.

From the moment the Enterprise left Mars' orbit, they began discussing the upgrading and modification of the spaceship with the aliens, but as they discussed, the spaceship began to malfunction.

It was really just like they said, this was an "old spaceship" on its "last" long-distance mission.

When problems arose, the upgrade discussions stopped, and they had to quickly repair the spaceship.

The aliens wanted to help, but they politely refused, and calmly explained, "Don't worry, it's just a small problem, it will be fixed soon."

"Yes, after all, it's the last mission. We've completed many long-distance missions on it and have deep feelings for it, so let us do it ourselves."

"Let us accompany our old friend to smoothly complete its last journey."

As a result, the "old friend" had more and more problems. After fixing a small problem, a big problem would immediately erupt, until the spaceship's maneuvering nozzles were all scrapped.

It didn't matter that the maneuvering nozzles were scrapped. The spaceship had several main engines. As long as they made good use of the relationship between the individual engines and the spaceship's center of gravity, coupled with the precise control of the intelligent control system, they could still achieve relatively accurate attitude adjustments.

After all, the Enterprise could land on Earth, and its main engines had adjustable thrust.

As a result, during an attitude adjustment, 40% of the main engines were scrapped, and the intelligent control chip in charge of thrust adjustment was also burned out.

No matter how many replacement parts the spaceship prepared, it was impossible to bring several spare main engines.

Even to rush the job, they didn't even install a spare intelligent control backup chip for thrust adjustment.

Anyway, in space, attitude adjustments were all performed by the maneuvering nozzles. It didn't matter if the thrust adjustment intelligent control chip was broken. At worst, they wouldn't land directly on Earth, but would dock in orbit, and then use manned spacecraft, small spaceplanes, or "spaceplanes" to pick them up.

Anyway, for acceleration and deceleration, the main thruster didn't need precise thrust adjustment at all. As long as they could fly to Earth orbit, they had many ways to get people back to the ground.

After all, times have changed. Human aerospace technology has made great progress, and there are more available technical means.

As a result, they couldn't even reach Earth orbit, and now they were done for.

Mars is too far from Earth. Current human technology simply can't achieve a "one-shot success." They have to adjust their attitude several times during the flight to maintain their course and then enter the planetary orbit at the most accurate angle and speed.

Now that they couldn't adjust their attitude, they calculated the course and position. If they didn't make an attitude adjustment within ten hours, they would have to say goodbye to Earth.

Even if they only deviated a little bit from the beginning, the scale of space is quite large. The longer they flew, the greater the difference in course. In the end, they wouldn't even be able to see Earth, let alone pass by it.

Fortunately, their antenna was fine and they could still communicate with Earth. They were helpless, so they had to see if the engineers on Earth had any hidden skills they hadn't shown.

Like, did the Enterprise spaceship have a "one-click repair" button?

Well, they were overthinking it. After the message was sent back, the ground control center quickly contacted them and asked them to make the most detailed report. After listening, the people on the ground were dumbfounded.

At first, they only heard that the power was damaged, and the engineers immediately thought of many solutions, but after listening to the detailed report, it could only be...

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Of course, the engineers and technicians didn't dare to say this.

After all, this matter was of great importance. Because of the aliens, America was being roasted at the United Nations General Assembly.

Although it wasn't afraid because of its thick skin, and its financial hegemony allowed it to extract blood from many countries, and there were countries that relied on this to survive.

Roasting is roasting, but if it doesn't reach the final limit, they can't really turn against it.

But if the aliens died because of America's own reasons, that would be uncertain.

Before the aliens arrived on Earth, everyone was still somewhat restrained and still had the last hope of reaching a cooperation. But if you say that the aliens died in space on the Enterprise spaceship, the hope of human contact with alien civilization and the advancement of technology would be strangled...

The engineers and technicians, as wage earners, couldn't bear this responsibility.

So they were all working hard to find solutions, one after another, constantly proposing their own or found "feasible" solutions.

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Regardless of whether it's useful or not, they have to keep themselves busy.

The bigwigs in charge of this area in America rushed to the command hall as soon as possible. They looked at the busy crowd and went into the meeting room next door, but their hearts sank more and more.

If the problem wasn't big, it should have been solved on their way here, but after they stayed in the meeting room for a long time, not only was the problem not solved, but the outside became more and more busy.

Someone came in to report the specific situation and progress.

"The situation is very bad. The Enterprise has lost all attitude adjustment power and almost half of its propulsion power."

"The main engines weren't completely lost? Can they be used for attitude adjustment?"

"Basically impossible, because the remaining main engines are all on one side, and it is impossible to complete course correction. It will only become more and more deviated, and the thrust of the main engines is too large. Even if you turn it on a little, it will deviate a lot, which will cause the spaceship to rotate and become more and more troublesome to adjust."

"Does the command center have any feasible solutions?"

"Not yet. The engineers on site are still working hard. We have connected with engineers from other aerospace companies, and they are also trying to find a solution, but we... we have a very bad feeling that we may not be able to... to overcome this crisis."

"Damn it, if the Enterprise doesn't come back, then we will face big problems. We are having a hard time supporting it at the United Nations General Assembly. Tianxia has united with other countries and formed great pressure on us. Those allies that we have finally repaired relations with have also begun to wait and see. If the aliens die in space..."

"Wait, the aliens! The aliens may have a solution!"

"Yes, the aliens! Do the aliens have a solution?"

"N-no way. According to the Enterprise's report, the aliens clearly wanted to help at the beginning, but after research by the ground control center, the Enterprise declined. They originally wanted to show off our own technology, but later it became completely unrepairable."

"..."