CCTV news: Come to know Huang Zhen, a "post-80s" aerospace youth who chases dreams of the galaxy, and this year's "China Youth May Fourth Medal" individual winner. He used his enthusiasm and youth to overcome difficulties, bravely climbed a new peak in the aerospace industry, successively broke through the technical bottlenecks such as The docking, circling, and manual rendezvous and docking of the Shenzhou spacecraft, participated in the development of a new generation of manned spacecraft on the mainland, and bravely opened the way for China's manned moon landing.
Recently, Huang Zhen and his colleagues are seizing the time to conduct simulation experiments related to manned moon landings. At the age of 39, he has become one of the youngest deputy chief designers in the field of manned spaceflight on the mainland, leading the team to carry out deepening program demonstration for the mainland manned moon landing project and organizing key technical research. The young deputy chief engineer said his dream of spaceflight began with a live television broadcast he saw in college.
After graduating from the Department of Physics of Peking University, Huang Zhen came to his current work unit, the Fifth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group, to pursue master's and doctoral studies. What he did not expect was that as soon as he graduated from his doctorate in 2010, he directly participated in the national key aerospace project.
Dream of the galaxy, relay inheritance. From Shenzhou 8 to Shenzhou 11, in just a few years, Huang Zhenhe and his team have overcome a number of key technologies, through countless ground simulation calculations and experimental verification, breaking through technical bottlenecks such as docking, circling, and rendezvousing and docking with space laboratories of the mainland Shenzhou spacecraft, realizing the romantic "space kiss" and laying the foundation for the implementation of the mainland space station mission.
In 2013, Huang Zhen's dream-chasing galaxy journey ushered in a new beginning.
Ten years to sharpen a sword. China's manned landing on the moon, there is no experience to refer to, how to make manned spacecraft, not only from the current space station near the Earth 400 kilometers of space return, but also from the moon 380,000 kilometers away manned round-trip, the space is twice as large? As the overall technical leader, Huang Zhen led a small team of 6 people to face the difficulties and opened a new journey of manned moon landing. At the time, he was only 30 years old.
The first step to a manned lunar landing, from Earth to lunar orbit. Huang Zhen led the young team to gather wisdom and innovation, day and night research, in only 3 years, successfully launched a new configuration of the multi-purpose spacecraft shrinkage return capsule, the return performance is 55% higher than the Shenzhou spacecraft. As the assistant to the chief division, Huang Zhen led the team to spend another 4 years to make a new generation of manned spacecraft test ship with a full size of more than 20 tons, successfully implemented a high-speed re-entry flight test in early May 2020, and returned to the earth from an altitude of 8,000 kilometers for the first time, laying the prototype of a new generation of manned spacecraft on the mainland.
At present, Huang Zhen has led a manned lunar landing team with an average age of only 35 years old to continuously tackle tough problems, and has organized and completed dozens of key technologies of large and small sizes, such as the fixed-point landing of the manned lunar lander and the survival of the extreme environment on the lunar surface, in order to realize the dream of China's manned moon landing at an early date, with great innovation and adventure, bold innovation, careful verification.
Huang Zhen, deputy chief designer of the manned field of the Fifth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group: With more than a year of completion of hundreds of iterations and related experiments, the thickness of our entire bulkhead has now reached about one millimeter, and we must ensure the safety of astronauts' work on the lunar surface, and also set the environment inside the cabin, so its difficulty is very large. Manned spaceflight, human life is at stake, we are the dreamers on the cliff, the happiest group of people in this era. In the future, I especially hope that between the earth and the moon, we can establish a free way for humans to travel back and forth, that is, like we usually fly, we can travel to the moon. In the distant future, you can go out of the Earth-Moon system, go to Mars, and go beyond the solar system. Things in the solar system, I think I still have the confidence to do.
Source: CCTV