Close-up: The Days Off Earth

Xinhua News Agency Jiuquan September 17 Title: Close-up: The Days Of Leaving The Earth

Xinhua News Agency reporters Li Yun, Zhang Mimi and Mi Siyuan

When the three astronauts left the earth, the watermelon in Yi'an County, Heilongjiang Was still a green seedling. Liu Bozhen, a farmer in Hongxing Township, has to go to the ground every day to serve his more than 60 acres of watermelon seedlings.

In a flash of 3 months, Liu Bozhen's watermelon has been ripe, and his younger brother Liu Boming, also returned to the earth in this harvest season.

Yes, most of the Chinese astronauts who shine in the eyes of outsiders come from such ordinary and simple families. Nie Haisheng, 57, was also born in a rural family in Zaoyang, Hubei Province, and his family was poor at an early age, and he did not even have enough to eat.

In Huqiao Town, Xiangtan, Hunan Province, tang Hongbo's 73-year-old father, Tang Haiqiu, contracted a fish pond, and even if the sun was hot, the old man still had to wear a straw hat and stand by the pond to sprinkle fish feed.

When the three astronauts left the earth and cruised the world, the fathers and fellow villagers who stayed in their hometowns were still working as always, year after year. Honor belongs to the state and the nation.

Three months after leaving the earth, the three Chinese astronauts also worked hard in space. The two successful departures totaled more than 13 hours, and successfully completed tasks such as equipment assembly and panoramic camera lifting for extravehicular activities.

In the first lesson of the school year, Nie Haisheng played tai chi on the space station, Tang Hongbo "drank tea with chopsticks", Liu Boming wrote down the two big characters of "ideal" with a brush, and the astronauts carried out a vivid science popularization teaching and patriotic education for primary and secondary school students across the country.

The three astronauts and nearly 300 young Hong Kong students, scientific and technological workers and teachers launched a unique "dialogue between heaven and earth", and the questions of each Hong Kong student representative were patiently answered by the astronauts. This theme event, titled "The Spirit of the Times Shines on the River", has once again set off a space boom in Hong Kong.

In the days of leaving the earth, Chinese astronauts also used a set of shocking large pictures to achieve the transmission effect of brushing screens.

This set of pictures taken by astronauts and officially released by the China Manned SpaceFlight Office has allowed the world to see the common home of mankind, the outline of the Somali Peninsula is clearly visible, the north African land is brightly lit, and the Ili River Valley is magnificent.

There is also a photo of his son pasted above Tang Hongbo's cabin, which is a heroic father's thoughts of his loved ones.

The most inspiring thing is the blessing from space: "Happy birthday to the great Communist Party of China!" "The national flag, the party flag, the party emblem reflect the blue planet, and the fusion of red and blue declares the endless life of a nation."

In the days of leaving the earth, those who worry about and pay attention to the 3 astronauts are not only fathers and fellow countrymen.

In order to welcome the safe and smooth return of the three astronauts, the landing site system formulated a careful, cautious and warm search and rescue plan, and proposed the search and rescue target of "the cabin landed". Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, all-terrain vehicles, 3 search and rescue detachments repeatedly drilled to form 7 sets of search and rescue tactics and command decision-making processes, and the local governments of 3 flags, 3 counties and 1 city around the landing area have prepared nearly 20 search and rescue reserve teams that can be put into assistance at any time.

In Wenchang, Hainan, thousands of kilometers away from the Dongfeng landing site, the combination of the Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft and the Long March 7 Yao-4 carrier rocket has been vertically transferred to the launch area, and various functional inspections and joint tests before launch are being carried out intensively.

After the launch of Tianzhou-3 on a chosen day, the Shenzhou 13 manned spacecraft will follow closely behind, carrying three other Chinese astronauts to space to meet longer, more difficult and more demanding space challenges. (End)