Old photo of Ye Guangfu's flight training.
Astronaut Ye Guangfu.
As a teenager, Ye Guangfu took a group photo with his mother and sister.
A Boeing 707 airliner soared into the sky with a roar, and a teenager ran out of the house and shouted: "Sister come and see, the plane is coming again!" The sisters and brothers lay on the stone slab in the doorway, looking up at the plane passing through the blue sky.
In the 1980s, Chengdu Shuangliu was one of the few places in China where planes could be seen frequently, which also made Ye Guangfu's sisters and brothers born here curious about airplanes from an early age.
Today, the little boy has grown into an astronaut. At this moment, he was overlooking the azure earth on the Tiangong space station. On December 9, 2021, Ye Guangfu, who flew the Shenzhou 13 space mission for the first time, also completed the first space lecture on the Chinese space station together with Zhai Zhigang and Wang Yaping.
From "looking up at the plane" to "overlooking the earth", more than 30 years of persistence, in exchange for the dream of youth come true.
Teenagers watching airplanes