South Korea has only one astronaut so far, and that is Lee So-yeon.
She landed in space in April 2008, and like the few countries that have tried to develop their outer space ambitions but have not had independent rocket technology, they bought a $20 million space ticket for money.
According to the South Korea-Russia agreement, Lee Su-yeon flew to the International Space Station on russia's "Soyuz TMA-12" spacecraft to carry out a 10-day scientific experiment.
When the fire was ignited, her mother was on the ground watching her daughter's rocket ride 50 meters above the ground, and the huge roar and extraordinary ground vibration made her instantly faint on the ground, who was overly worried about her daughter.
President Lee Myung-bak, who is far away in Seoul, South Korea, delivered a speech full of ambition after the successful launch of the spaceship on which Lee So-yeon was riding, emphasizing that South Korea should rank among the top seven space powers in the world within 10 years!
However, the 10-year period has long passed, and 2021 is also halfway over, looking at the world space launch data so far this year, it is found that South Korea can not be found at all.
Instead, India, Iran, and Israel are on the list!
(The rocket test mission was only completed in March this year)
And Lee So-yeon, who brought a strong sense of pride to the South Korean people, resigned after 2014, married with a scolding voice, and moved to the United States.
Among them, there are many stories, but on the whole, it is a very typical Korean ambition overturning incident!
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South Korea is in a sensitive geographical location, the United States is its ally, in terms of launch vehicle technology, sad political threshold!
However, there is one thing to say that South Korea relies on this alliance system and still has the qualification to obtain technology and product support in other industries.
But once it really wants to develop its own ambitions, the ally of the United States is not happy.
That's why South Korea Aerospace turned to Russia.
Because of the backward development of national technology, the process of selecting Korean astronauts is not as strict as ours.
None of the male and female candidates selected were pilots.
When our country announced in 1995 that it would select astronauts, the basic requirement was that the flight time should be more than 1,000 hours, and at least more than 800 hours.
Yang Liwei and 14 others were not elected as the first astronauts until 1998.
It took 3 years to be recognized, and you can imagine how harsh the conditions are when you are an astronaut!
South Korea, on the other hand, can't do that, but they're too hasty.
They started selecting people from April to July 2006, didn't decide until December of that year, and just two years later, in April, they were sent to space...
I wonder if the people selected by South Korea are astronauts or payload experts, or space passengers.
The male, Takayama, is a senior student in the Department of Mathematics at Seoul National University, and after graduation, he worked as an artificial intelligence research and development expert in a famous enterprise. At the same time, the boxing strength is good, and I have won the bronze medal in the amateur group!
He later became the final candidate for the South Korean astronaut, but in the end he did not go to heaven, and the inside story here is not simple at all, and we will talk about it later.
The woman's name is Li Suyan, the name is very girly, but from the perspective of appearance and physical fitness, it is not a girl at all.
Objectively speaking, Lee So-yeon is indeed a very strong Korean woman.
Born with a doctorate in bioengineering, he works at the Institute of Aerospace Research and has formed a girl group. Taekwondo is three stages, swimming strength is strong, running a marathon is not difficult.
She was selected for the reserve group in the final round of the audition, and because of the existence of the mountain, she thought that she would always be on the waiting list.
Another reason I say she is the best woman in South Korea is that she still found time to complete her doctoral dissertation during such a harsh period of training in Russia.
He was always a sober man, including the choice to leave the Korea Space Agency later.
The mountain that was previously set was replaced a month before going into space, and the Russian side was very serious about making this decision.
Because Takayama violated the management regulations of the teaching materials twice in a row, one was to bring the teaching materials back to the dormitory.
Another time, it seemed more serious to Russia - because in their eyes, Takayama was only the identity of a space passenger, but they borrowed the information of the pilot of the spaceship!
I didn't realize my position of authority!
So a report on the fate of the mountain was sent to South Korea's space agency, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute.
Russia's argument is that "in the universe, a small mistake or disobedience can have serious consequences," and other cooperating countries strictly adhere to the rules.
There was no way, South Korea had to agree to replace Takayama.
Li Suyan, who was lucky enough to become the protagonist, carried out 18 experiments in space and came to a heaven-earth call. Because she couldn't put on makeup, she washed her head hard.
He also realized his previous dream of bringing Kimchi and other Korean foods to outer space.
After that, she and two other American and Russian astronauts returned to Earth according to the plan.
When she came, she was on the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft, and when she returned, she was in the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft.
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When it came, everything went well, but on the way back, it wasn't.
The landing of the Soyuz TMA-11 was defined at the time as a Level 3 accident, with Level 5 being the highest.
Because one of the bolts that control the separation of the hatch did not work properly, the separation work was carried out after the spacecraft entered the Earth's atmosphere, and it was planned to achieve separation before entering.
Therefore, the direction of the return capsule is deflected, which should be the insulated outsole facing forward, and the hatch is turned forward.
There are many equipment such as rescue and communication at the hatch, and after entering the earth, the antenna is burned.
It also landed ballistically (very bumpy) and took 3.5 hours, 20 minutes later than scheduled!
The landing site was 420 kilometers off the original plan and smashed the ground out of a 30 cm deep pit.
At the same time, the bushes around the landing site were also ignited, and it can be said that after returning to the ground, the three of them faced another danger.
Because the rescue team did not arrive in time, it was the Russian astronaut Maleenchenko in the cabin who broke free and contacted the outside world with a satellite phone.
Because of the load-bearing of up to 10 G on the way back, Li Suyan, who is not a professional pilot, suffered a physical loss, coupled with the fact that her seat was closest to the landing site, she immediately felt waist pain.
In subsequent diagnoses, the doctor's recommendation is hospitalization.
So you can see that the several astronauts who came back were not in good health, and Li Suyan was even more serious.
But she continued to undertake the established space publicity mission, because before going to heaven, she had signed a two-year work plan with the Korean Space Academy.
It's more about doing lecture tours, which she's been doing for 4 years since she was discharged from the hospital.
Before announcing her resignation in 2014, she had already given 235 speeches.
In fact, she has been working on the basis of the contract for 2 years, because South Korea's follow-up plan has not been realized, and the "Luo Lao" alone has postponed 7 launches, and this is still a semi-finished product from Russia.
In addition, her body did not allow her to go to heaven again.
Therefore, it is meaningless for Li Suyan to continue to speak, but the news of her resignation still attracted a round of scolding from the people, saying that the country spent so much money, she just left and so on.
But on closer examination, I think that Li Suyan's experience in lifting off made her more afraid.
Astronauts who are not in their own country must be treated differently, as she said: "There is a big difference between the training spacecraft and the real spacecraft!" ”
(Of course, it also has something to do with her short training time)
With her departure, South Korea's space industry has no strong voice.
However, you know that this country and people have always loved to boast about Haikou.
To tell the truth, on this planet, those who like to brag about their technology and development prospects, in my opinion, one is South Korea, and the other is India.
Over the years, I have watched the hardships of our country's Shenzhou series of spacecraft step by step, and I have also learned a fact: all countries that have gained a firm foothold in the unknown field of mankind are relatively down-to-earth.
Outer space is certainly a desirable place, but the difficulty is really great.
But looking at the bold ambitions that South Korea has released in the zero years, it seems that it is not clear where this confidence comes from.
The Roh Lao was initially announced to launch in October 2007, and if successful, South Korea will become the world's ninth country capable of launching a rocket — a fact that it didn't do so until 2013, and that year was the end of the plan when it was first drawn up.
That is to say, by 2013, whether it is successful or not, it will be over.
As far as the level of "Luo Lao" is concerned, in 2012, some experts in China explained that in fact, their level has just started.
But！
It is at this juncture of not starting up, do you know what Li Suyan said before the ascension?
She said: "After returning to Earth, I intend to help South Korea implement the lunar exploration program and make the program develop better and faster!" ”
What?
We in China only started our lunar exploration project in 2004 after decades of application of launch vehicle technology, and then just got something back from the moon last year.
The tone of the Koreans is really as big as ever!
So in those years, Asian countries really couldn't bear not to complain about South Korea.
Japan is not polite at all, directly saying that South Korea's rocket technology is equivalent to Japan's level in the 60s of the last century.
After North Korea successfully launched the "Light Star 3" satellite, South Korean experts have to admit that they are even behind North Korea in terms of rocket technology!