How bullish is China's lunar exploration?
The first panoramic presentation
Lunar exploration project in China
A documentary series of 17 years
"Our Journey" starts airing today
Take a sneak peek
Rush to the sea of stars in your heart
▲ Trailer for "Our Journey"
The Chang'e series of probes used in China's lunar exploration projects and the Long March series carrier rockets used in their launches were developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Group Co., Ltd., and other subsystems of the project also have the relevant units of the Aerospace Science and Technology Group participating in the development.
"Our Journey" is the first documentary that the China National Space Administration and the Central Radio and Television Corporation spent 4 years to create to show the complete course of China's lunar exploration project in 17 years of "circling, falling and returning", is a documentary masterpiece with international vision, international expression and international standards, and is an excellent work that tells Chinese stories, disseminates space culture and popularizes space knowledge.
The documentary consists of three episodes, each 50 minutes long, which truly presents the development process of China's lunar exploration project in the past 17 years, leaving a tortuous but full historical imprint. This imprint records not only a huge and complicated super project, but also a witness to the rapid growth of China's aerospace industry and the common progress of the Chinese nation.
The film comprehensively, three-dimensionally and vividly interprets the lunar exploration spirit of "chasing dreams, daring to explore, coordinating to tackle tough problems, and cooperating for win-win results", carries forward the spiritual genealogy of Chinese communists, and transmits the spiritual strength on which China's scientific and technological development and progress rely.
Through systematically combing the 17-year development process of the lunar exploration project, the documentary digs deep into the tortuous story of the 908 days of the Long March 5 carrier rocket from defeat to successful resumption, completely presents the thrilling 23-day whole process of Chang'e 5 completing the lunar soil collection task, shows the strength of China's industry, science and technology, and aerospace, establishes the whole society and domestic and foreign counterparts to view the current situation and trend of China's aerospace development objectively and rationally, and carries out and promotes international cooperation under a broader vision.
▲ "Star Sea" MV
It is worth mentioning that through the combination and application of various means such as character interviews, important development scenes, and related materials, the film outlines the cooperation and support between the various development units of the major systems, showing the fearless pursuit of scientific exploration by Chinese, as well as the admirable courage and wisdom paid in this journey full of risks and challenges. In the rich details and twists and turns of the story, let the audience vividly understand the great significance of China's lunar exploration project, deeply appreciate the fighting spirit of astronauts, truly feel China's progress and efforts, and get inspiration and motivation from it.
The documentary "Our Journey" will be launched on December 24-26 at the 20:00 golden file of CCTV-9 Documentary Channel of CCTV-9, and new media platforms such as CCTV and CCTV will also be broadcast simultaneously.
Source/China Aerospace WeChat public account
Editor/Yang Sishuang
Audit/Yang Jie
Producer/Cao Xiaoyong
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