On September 25, 2008, three astronauts took the Shenzhou NO. 7 manned rocket into space to perform the third manned space mission, which is of extremely important significance and is the first time that Chinese astronauts have carried out space out of the capsule.
As the most experienced astronaut among the three, Zhai Zhigang, the commander of the spacecraft, naturally took on the responsibility of the first outgoing activity, but the accident occurred suddenly.
At first, due to the pressure inside and outside the orbital module, Zhai Zhigang could not open the hatch smoothly, and he almost exhausted his whole body with a metal crowbar, and finally pried open the hatch.
Shenzhou VII was launched
But another bad news followed, and there was a rapid alarm sound in the cabin, and it turned out that there was a fire in the orbital module!
Zhai Zhigang's scalp tingled in an instant, if the orbital module exploded, they would never be able to return to Earth, but he quickly calmed down, as astronauts, the 3 of them had already been put aside.
Therefore, Zhai Zhigang's first reaction was to take the five-star red flag out of the cabin as soon as possible, even if he paid the price of his life, he would also complete the task entrusted to him by the state!
Everyone's heart was hanging over their throats, and the most nervous of them was the families of the three astronauts.
When Zhai Zhigang's wife Zhang Shujing saw this scene across the screen, her brain was blank, and when she saw Zhai Zhigang slowly waving the national flag outside the cabin, her heart suddenly communicated with her husband, and the interests of the country were above all else!
Zhai Zhigang completed the task of leaving the cabin for the first time
Zhang Shujing, as the woman behind Zhai Zhigang, does not appear on TV many times, what kind of person is she? What kind of touching story does she have with Zhai Zhigang?
Zhai Zhigang and Zhang Shujing's encounter
It is often said that behind a successful man, there must be a woman who pays silently, and this woman is either a mother or a wife.
This sentence is very reasonable, behind Zhai Zhigang, the first person to walk in China' spacewalk, there is not only a mother who cuts down on food and clothing for him to study, but also a xiannei assistant Zhang Shujing who has no regrets and wholeheartedly supports him.
In 1966, Zhai Zhigang was born in a poor rural family in Heilongjiang Province, Zhai Zhigang's father was not in good health, he was bedridden for many years, and the burden of supporting the family fell on his mother's thin shoulders.
Zhai Zhigang's mother
"No matter how bitter you can't be bitter children, no matter how poor you can't be poor in education", this is almost the voice of every parent, Zhai Zhigang's mother began to fry melon seeds every day before dawn, and at dawn she carried the burden into the city to sell, Zhai Zhigang's tuition was earned little by little.
In order to live up to his mother's expectations, Zhai Zhigang never slackened in his studies, he had excellent academic performance, and after finishing high school, he signed up for pilot recruitment, and successfully passed the physical examination and obtained the qualification to enter the Aviation College.
In the aviation school, Zhai Zhigang not only learned a wealth of flying knowledge, acquired skilled flying skills, and became a qualified fighter pilot.
After graduation, he served at an air base, where Zhai Zhigang met his future wife, Zhang Shujing, and harvested a sweet love.
Zhai Zhigang and Zhang Shujing
Zhang Shujing is also a native of Heilongjiang, born in 1967 in Wuchang City to a working family, although she is a quiet girl, but from childhood eager to become a heroic female soldier, so after graduating from high school, Zhang Shujing also actively enlisted in the army, and successfully stayed in the air base.
When serving at the air base, many female soldiers will take advantage of the rest time to sneak to the training ground of the male pilots to take a look, and every time they come back, friends will share what they have seen and heard with her: the male pilots are wearing a neat air force uniform, driving the plane in the air, very handsome!
Zhang Shujing was very yearning in her heart, and even secretly made up her mind that when she looked for a partner in the future, she must find a pilot who won glory for the country!
Fighter pilot
It didn't take long for Zhang Shujing's dream to come true!
Her friend introduced her to a fighter pilot serving at another air base, and the friend felt that both of them were gentle and friendly and should be able to get along, so they offered to let the two meet and make friends.
Zhang Shujing was in her early twenties at the time, it was the age of Spring Heart, she was a little shy, but in order to witness the style of the pilot, she immediately accepted the invitation, silently cheered herself up, and told herself that even if she could not develop into a partner, multiple friends were very good.
Friends to Zhang Shujing introduced the object is Zhai Zhigang, the two first met when the impression of each other are very good, in Zhang Shujing's eyes, Zhai Zhigang looks tall and burly, and the personality is gentle and considerate, it is easy to make people feel safe.
A photograph of Zhai Zhigang when he was young
In Zhai Zhigang's view, Zhang Shujing is quiet and introverted, but her speech and demeanor are not small at all, she looks very beautiful and cute, has a pair of large black eyes, and when she laughs, her eyes are like stars and seem to glow.
Zhai Zhigang and Zhang Shujing both fell in love with each other at first sight, and after the first meeting, Zhai Zhigang would make an appointment with Zhang Shujing after training.
The two are both air force, there are many common topics, as the chat deepened, they found that each other's attitude to many issues is basically the same, very tacit understanding, only after meeting a few times, Zhai Zhigang and Zhang Shujing quickly established a relationship.
Zhang Shujing
As an air force, neither of them could leave the base at will, so after several months of interaction, Zhai Zhigang and Zhang Shujing finally adjusted their time and visited the relatives of the two people separately.
Zhai Zhigang first followed Zhang Shujing to the Zhang family, and the parents of the Zhang family heard that Zhai Zhigang was a pilot and praised him for his future and his future.
Zhai Zhigang behaved very modestly and down-to-earth, and Zhang's father and mother Felt that this young man would not treat his daughter badly, so the more he looked at this "son-in-law-to-be", the more he liked it.
Zhai Zhigang old photo
Zhang Shujing also followed Zhai Zhigang to zhai's house, and Zhai Zhigang's mother and siblings also showed their heartfelt love for Zhang Shujing.
The Zhai family felt that Zhang Shujing was gentle and beautiful, kind and considerate, and at first glance she was a filial piety child, the girl was willing to endure hardships and become a soldier, which was very remarkable, and Zhai Zhigang's mother almost regarded the "daughter-in-law" as her own daughter-in-law.
In 1993, Zhai Zhigang and Zhang Shujing were married with the blessings of their families and comrades-in-arms, and in order not to affect normal training, they agreed that there was no need to engage in any complicated wedding ceremonies, and it was more warm to simply eat a meal with relatives and friends.
Zhang Shujing took Zhai Zhigang home
Become a husband's dependent
After Zhai Zhigang and Zhang Shujing got married, life was ordinary and warm, and it wasn't long before Zhang Shujing gave birth to a big fat boy for Zhai Zhigang, who named his son Zhai Tianxiong, which contained good wishes for the development and growth of China's aerospace industry.
Zhai Zhigang is a first-class pilot, and his work is relatively busy, so the task of taking care of his family is mainly completed by Zhang Shujing, who is relatively idle.
But Zhai Zhigang did not escape family responsibilities, after each training, he would rush home directly, help his wife do housework, tease his son, and the family of three was very happy.
Zhang Shujing and son Zhai Tianxiong
In May 1995, Zhai Zhigang encountered danger during a flight training that went very smoothly at first, but had an accident on his return.
The fighter jet piloted by Zhai Zhigang suddenly encountered a strong wind, the wind speed was as high as 10 meters per second, and a little attention would make the pilot deviate from the course and even overturn the fighter.
Fortunately, Zhai Zhigang had a lot of experience in driving, he calmly and calmly controlled the fighter based on the instrument data, and returned to the ground safely, avoiding possible casualties and property losses, so the troops awarded him the third class.
Zhai Zhi just returned home to report the good news and did not report the worries, only told Zhang Shujing that he had obtained the third class merit, never mentioned the danger encountered, this word concealed from others but could not hide Zhang Shujing, who was also an air force, the third class merit is so good to stand, under Zhang Shujing's constant questioning, Zhai Zhi just finally told the truth.
Fighter flight training
After Zhang Shujing knew the danger that her husband encountered, she was both angry and touched and felt afraid, she and Zhai Zhigang agreed that if they encountered danger, they must not hide themselves anymore, as Zhai Zhigang's wife, she should be the first to know about her husband's safety situation, Zhai Zhigang had to agree.
Zhai Zhigang promised in his heart that he would be more cautious in the future and not let his wife worry about herself anymore.
However, in January 1998, Zhai Zhigang's promise was invalidated in advance, because he was successfully selected for the first batch of astronauts on the mainland with his outstanding performance and excellent physical fitness.
At that time, the mainland's manned space industry had not yet matured, and all the work was still in the experimental stage, Zhang Shujing was proud of her husband, and her heart was secretly worried.
In order not to affect her husband's training status, she hid her worries in her heart and encouraged Zhai Zhigang to train hard and win glory for the country.
Zhai Zhigang was trained underwater to simulate a weightless environment
In 1999, the mainland's first unmanned test spacecraft was successfully sent into space, which was a significant stroke in the history of China's aerospace development and laid a solid foundation for China's manned spaceflight.
After that, the country began to study manned space technology, the training of astronauts became more stringent, and every astronaut had great ambitions and aspired to become the first Chinese to enter space.
Zhang Shujing had personally observed Zhai Zhigang's training, and in her opinion, those trainings could be called "devil level".
The daily training of astronauts
The training that astronauts need to receive is generally divided into 8 categories, and there are more than 100 projects under the 8 categories, each of which is subdivided into training units, and all the training units add up to a total of several thousand items.
In order to adapt to the overweight phenomenon that will occur when taking off and returning from the spaceship, astronauts need to exercise their weight-bearing ability so that their bodies can bear 8 times the weight, Zhang Shujing saw Zhai Zhigang in the training room who was breathless and sweaty, and felt very distressed.
Zhang Shujing also accompanied Zhai Zhigang to do anti-halo training, Zhai Zhigang was firmly fixed to the rotating seat by the seat belt, the seat slowly began to rotate, and constantly accelerated, and it did not take long to increase to a speed that was dizzy just bystanders.
Rotating seats for anti-stun training
Zhai Zhigang finished training in the side of the garbage can vomiting, pale, in order to avoid staining the training room, Zhai Zhigang deliberately did not eat breakfast, so all that came out was sour water.
Zhang Shujing quickly helped him smooth his back, helped him sit up, brought him a cup of specially prepared sugar and salt water, so that he could replenish energy, electrolytes and water in time, looking at Zhai Zhigang's uncomfortable look, Zhang Shujing felt like he had been squeezed hard.
Zhang Shujing feels that she can't just focus on family life, she also wants to become a solid backing for her husband in her career.
It just so happened that the space department was studying the food that astronauts could carry when they entered space, and needed to recruit help, So Zhang Shujing volunteered herself and began to study space food.
Aerospace food
The woman behind the astronauts
On October 15, 2003, China's manned space rocket was successfully launched for the first time, and astronaut Yang Liwei became the first Chinese to enter the universe, which was a big step forward for China's space industry.
Before this, Zhai Zhigang successfully became Yang Liwei's backup astronaut, which meant that he stood out among many astronauts and already had the necessary ability to enter space.
Zhang Shujing knew that her husband would definitely have regrets in her heart for not having the opportunity to carry out this mission, so she accompanied him and gently enlightened him, telling him that as long as he persisted, he would definitely have a chance to win glory for the country, because Zhang Shujing knew how hard Zhai Zhigang had worked in hard training.
Zhai Zhigang inspects the spacesuit
Zhai Zhigang seriously threw himself into the auxiliary work within the division, but he did not know that his wife's heart was very heavy at this time, because Zhang Shujing hid a huge secret from Zhai Zhigang.
It turned out that Zhai Zhigang's mother was 85 years old this year, and after Zhai Zhigang was selected as a backup astronaut, his mother became seriously ill.
In order not to distract Zhai Zhigang, her mother asked the family to hide their critical illness, saying that she might not live long, but Zhai Zhigang was the hope of the country, and she could not use this personal matter to disturb him to do big things.
Zhai Zhigang's mother saw her son's figure on TV, she seemed to be satisfied, half a month later, the mother died and left this world forever, and her son did not know the news at all.
Zhai Zhigang saluted
After Zhai Zhigang's mother died, Zhang Shujing single-handedly handled her mother's funeral and funeral, during that time she was very busy and had great psychological pressure, but whenever Zhai Zhigang called home to inquire about his family, Zhang Shujing still forced a smile on his face, told him that everything was fine, and let him work with peace of mind.
Zhai Zhigang finally learned the news of his mother's death from the leader's mouth, and he was momentarily shocked and overwhelmed, complaining in his heart that he did not hear something wrong from his wife's suppressed voice, and even more guilty that he did not care about his mother's body every day.
Zhang Shujing knew that Zhai Zhigang was very filial to his mother, and the sudden death of his mother must be an extremely important blow to him, in order to comfort Zhai Zhigang, Zhang Shujing said a word to Zhai Zhigang: "Great loyalty is great filial piety." ”
Zhang Shujing hugged Zhai Zhigang, who returned to Earth
Zhang Shujing knew that Zhai Zhigang actually understood this truth, but she fell into a mood of self-blame for a while.
So he explained that as the son of this small family, his mother naturally had to come to fulfill his filial piety when he died, but he was also the son of the country, and he had to be loyal to the motherland, and it was clear at a glance that the small family was lighter and heavier than everyone.
Zhang Shujing also said that her mother only left after watching the news, and her mother was very proud of his successful selection, and presumably her mother must have preferred Zhai Zhigang to stay at the space base instead of going home to guard her side.
Under the comfort of Zhang Shujing, Zhai Zhigang finally calmed down, and he decided to devote himself to training more seriously, only if he really became an astronaut who had entered space, he would not fail to live up to the country's cultivation of himself and the dedication of his family to himself.
A photo of Zhai Zhigang in the space capsule
In September 2008, Zhai Zhigang finally got his wish, and he was arranged by the state to carry out the shenzhou 7 mission and assumed the important position of commander.
Despite encountering some frightening dangers when he first left the capsule, he did a brilliant job of completing the mission, allowing the five-star red flag to appear in space for the first time.
In November of the same year, Zhai Zhigang was awarded the honorary title of "Aerospace Hero" by the state, and also won a "Medal of Merit in Spaceflight".
In the days when Zhai Zhigang grew into a hero, Zhang Shujing also silently cultivated her son into a mature and stable little teenager who was proud of his father.
When Zhang Shujing educates her son, she attaches great importance to cultivating her son's patriotic consciousness, and she does not want the gap between father and son due to lack of companionship, so she loves to tell her son the story of Zhai Zhigang's hard training and outstanding performance.
Zhai Tianxiong (wearing a mask) greets Zhai Zhigang
Zhai Tianxiong slowly learned about the image of his father in Zhang Shujing's story, that is, a gentle and kind, determined, very patriotic, very responsible man, Zhai Tianxiong is very distressed about his father's hard work, so he never half a word of complaint, only love for his father.
On October 16, 2021, Zhai Zhigang participated in the Shenzhou 13 manned flight mission, and this time the mission was completed very smoothly, so that all Chinese's hearts surged with patriotic pride.
Six months later, on April 16, 2022, the Shenzhou 13 manned spacecraft finally landed smoothly in the nervous mood of everyone.
When Zhai Zhi first came out of the cabin, his wife Zhang Shujing looked at him tenderly on the side, and his son Zhai Tianxiong directly held a large bouquet of bouquets and hugged his father, and the space hero got rid of the feeling of weightlessness and felt that he had finally returned to the earth and returned to the embrace of his family.
A group photo of Zhai Zhigang's family of three
Zhai Zhigang's family has almost witnessed the whole process of the development of the mainland's manned space industry, Zhai Zhigang is the space hero on the stage, Zhang Shujing is silently waiting behind him, and the contributions made by their family to the mainland's space industry are worth remembering.
Every time our country makes leapfrog progress, behind it is inseparable from the selfless efforts of countless small families, in front of the small family and everyone, they chose everyone, because just like Zhang Shujing said, great loyalty is great filial piety, and patriotism is the highest level of love for the family!
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