Wang Yaping, as the first female astronaut in China, is also the first "space teacher" on the mainland.
She flew into space twice, gave "space talks" three times, spent 198 days in orbit, and is also the continent's longest-serving female astronaut in orbit.
Behind such dazzling achievements is Wang Yaping's perseverance and training day after day, and the silent support and dedication of the whole family behind her.
A few days ago, a group of Wang Yaping's family photos were exposed on the Internet.
In this set of photos, netizens also saw a rare photo of Wang Yaping and her sister.
In the photo, Wang Yaping's sister is young and beautiful, and she is as good-looking as her sister.
Heroic astronaut Wang Yaping
Wang Yaping is the second female astronaut in space on the mainland after Liu Yang, and is also the second batch of astronauts selected by the mainland.
Wang Yaping has multiple identities, astronauts, "space teachers", colonels and so on.
But people overlook that she is also an ordinary woman, she is also the daughter of her parents, the mother of her children, and the wife of her husband.
As an active-duty soldier, Wang Yaping has the ability and responsibility, and she has dedicated her entire youth to the aerospace industry of the motherland.
In 1997, Wang Yaping was selected by the Changchun Flight Academy of the Air Force.
The mainland's space program began in 1992, from the construction of the space station to the astronauts flying into space, during which it has also experienced the painstaking efforts of many scientists.
As a profession of astronauts, the selection process of this talent is also very complex and long, and the most basic threshold is to accumulate more than 800 hours of flight experience.
In general, piloting is a seemingly beautiful but difficult profession.
Wang Yaping, who has always loved beauty, was also forced to cut off his long hair that he had grown for many years, and grew a short hair that looked like a boy.
In the four years of university, Wang Yaping completed a series of training tasks such as basic theory, aerospace professional technology, flight procedures and adaptation to the aerospace environment, and finally passed the comprehensive assessment of astronauts' professional technology with excellent results.
In fact, in the two years before Wang Yaping first became a pilot, she had not even seen the shadow of the plane.
At that time, Wang Yaping carried out physical and military training day after day, but fortunately, her physical fitness has always been very good, so she was able to quickly adapt to various intensity training.
Two years later, seven students had been eliminated from the flight training class, which had 37 students.
From this time on, Wang Yaping finally began to get in touch with formal flight training.
After graduation, Wang Yaping, who was proficient in the flight and piloting skills of four types of aircraft, was assigned to the Wuhan Air Force.
She first served as a transport pilot, and then with her excellent style and excellent business skills, Wang Yaping soon grew into a backbone pilot in the unit.
During this period, Wang Yaping carried out many major tasks, such as cloud and rain reduction at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Wenchuan earthquake relief, Chongqing rainfall, Shandong drought relief, and so on.
In 2009, the second round of astronaut selection began in China, which was also the first time that the mainland openly recruited female astronauts.
Wang Yaping signed up as soon as he learned the news, and with daily hard training, Wang Yaping was successfully selected into the list of reserve astronauts.
Before becoming an official astronaut, Wang Yaping had accumulated 1,600 flight hours.
Wang Yaping once had the honor to meet Yang Liwei, the "first person in aerospace", and Yang Liwei told her that as an astronaut, the most difficult thing is to learn.
Only after Wang Yaping was really selected as an astronaut did she really understand the meaning of Yang Liwei's words.
Wang Yaping said, "From becoming an astronaut, to the selection of the team, and then to the flight mission, the training and study time alone takes four years. ”
When he first joined the astronaut team, Wang Yaping had never been able to withstand the limits of his body, so it was difficult to break through the second level.
It is easy to say that it is false, but Wang Yaping really insisted.
In the first year, Wang Yaping took more than 30 courses in astronomy, aerodynamics, advanced mathematics and other systematic subjects alone.
Wang Yaping said bluntly, "This process is like climbing the 'ladder of heaven'. ”
In these four years, there are eight categories of subjects that need to be studied systematically, with a total of more than 100 subjects.
Such a huge knowledge system requires great perseverance and hard work to study.
At the same time, the physical training of astronauts is also extraordinarily demanding.
In the training of overweight endurance, Wang Yaping is required to withstand 8 G of gravitational acceleration in a high-speed rotating centrifuge.
During the training, Wang Ya's plane was twisted, breathing was difficult, and even tears were thrown out together.
All kinds of training can be called "devil" level challenges.
As we all know, astronauts' physical training itself is to challenge the limits of the human body, but this training is also to be able to adapt astronauts to the living environment of space.
For Wang Yaping, whether it is academic acquisition or physical breakthrough, she can pass the hurdle, and deal with it one by one, and the psychological breakthrough is the most difficult.
Referring to psychological training, Wang Yaping said, "Psychological training is often spent in a small space for 72 hours, which is actually a very suffocating process. At first, we will feel very quiet, do not have to talk or communicate with people, but as time goes on, when no one is talking to us, our minds and bodies have to stay awake, all this is easy to say, but the process of doing it requires a lot of personal perseverance. ”
To put it bluntly, if you want to become a real astronaut, you must be excellent in learning ability, intelligence, physical fitness, psychological quality and coping with emergencies in order to withstand the test of space.
But Wang Yaping has truly achieved "both civility and martial arts".
In 2013, Wang Yaping finally stood out and got the opportunity to enter space with Nie Haisheng and Zhang Xiaoguang on the "Shenzhou 10" spacecraft.
In this mission, Wang Yaping was mainly responsible for some routine aircraft status monitoring, equipment control tasks, and the daily life of the crew.
At the same time, Wang Yaping also completed a special task in "Tiangong-1", that is, to move the classroom into space, giving primary and secondary school students a wonderful "space lesson", which also greatly stimulated children's dreams of exploring space.
So far, only Barbara Morgan of the United States has succeeded in teaching in space, in 2007.
In this way, Wang Yaping is also the "second person in the world" and "the first person in China" to teach in space.
From becoming one of the first female astronauts in 2009 to flying successfully in 2013, Wang Yaping took only six years.
It is worth mentioning that Wang Yaping is also the first female astronaut in China to walk out of the space station, which is also an epoch-making step in China's space industry.
On June 11, 2013, Wang Yaping's Shenzhou 10 was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, and after 15 days, it landed safely in Inner Mongolia on June 26.
Eight years later, Wang Yaping flew into space for the second time and flew into space on October 16, 2021 on the "Shenzhou 13".
According to the plan, Wang Yaping needs to stay in orbit for half a year, and Wang Yaping himself needs to step out of the space capsule and realize space walking.
In the process of this flight, Wang Yaping taught in space again, showing the audience on Earth a variety of experiments in space, and Wang Yaping was also praised as the "ceiling of the online class world".
During the more than 100 days in space, Wang Yaping missed the blue planet "Earth" extremely and was very worried about his family.
Wang Yaping's husband, Zhao Peng, is also an excellent Air Force pilot.
However, in order to fully support his wife's career, Zhao Peng gradually reduced his flight time and became the "man behind him" of Wang Yaping at home.
Whether it is his family's three meals a day or his daughter's homework, Zhao Pengru has taken all these responsibilities on himself and has become more and more proficient.
Wang Yaping's daughter Zhao Yunxi was born when Wang Yaping was 36 years old, and the family regarded her as a treasure.
When Wang Yaping carried out the flying mission of "Shenzhou 13", her daughter was only four years old, and she was most dependent on her mother.
But in order to fly the mission, Wang Yaping could only be reluctant, and even risked his unknown life to embark on a new round of space travel.
When Wang Yaping took out a "star" from his arms, people suddenly remembered that Wang Yaping was still an ordinary mother.
Since Wang Yaping became famous, many media have also interviewed her parents, but all along, Wang Yaping's parents have rarely appeared in public, on the grounds that the two elderly people are afraid that they will not say the wrong thing and cause trouble for their daughter.
To be able to raise such outstanding children as the Wang Yaping sisters, Wang Yaping's parents are really indispensable.
Many people think that Wang Yaping's parents are intellectuals, but in fact, these two old people are real ordinary people.
In addition to his parents, Wang Yaping's family also has a younger sister, Wang Aiming.
In real life, Wang Aiming is also a high-value girl, and in detail, the sisters are still very similar between their eyebrows.
Sisters Wang Yaping and Wang Aiming have grown up together since they were children, and now they have chosen a completely different life path from their sister.
In the photo, Wang Aiming's eyes seem to be not as big as her sister's, but her single eyelid appearance is also more attractive.
There is not much relevant information about Wang Aiming on the Internet, but since Wang Yaping was assigned to work in Wuhan after graduation, Wang Aiming has also followed his sister's steps closely and went to live in Wuhan together.
Now Wang Aiming also has a stable career, the sisters each create their own value in different positions, and Wang Yaping's parents have always accompanied the sisters, and the life of a large family can be described as very happy and complete.
Wang Yaping's current situation
In May 2023, on the International Day of Families, the All-China Women's Federation released representatives of ten families in the 2023 "Most Beautiful Families", including Wang Yaping's family.
On the same day, Wang Yaping wore a heroic military uniform and took her husband and daughter on the stage together.
Zhao Peng wore a navy blue casual shirt with black trousers, looking very casual and comfortable, and his daughter Zhao Yunxi wore a small pink skirt, very lively and cute.
Now Zhao Yunxi is already a first-grade elementary school student, although she is only seven or eight years old, she is exceptionally sensible.
Every time Wang Yaping can get together with her husband and daughter is very short, but all along, what worries Wang Yaping the most is his daughter.
Zhao Yunxi knew when she was very young that her mother often had to go on missions for the country, and although she and her mother got together less and parted more, she never complained about why her mother did not have time to accompany her.
On the contrary, she often gives her mother the greeting cards she draws and some small handicrafts she makes, so that her mother's work can be easier and relieve her psychological pressure.
In April 2022, Wang Yaping successfully completed the flight mission of "Shenzhou 13", and then the group arrived in Beijing by plane.
Zhao Peng took his daughter early and waited to pick him up.
On the same day, Zhao Yunxi wore a Chinese red to present a bouquet of flowers to Wang Yaping, and Wang Yaping also held her daughter tightly in her arms, gently patted her daughter's back with both hands, and her eyes were full of tears.
At this moment, Wang Yaping smiled and took out a "star" from his arms and handed it to his daughter.
Wang Yaping said it was a small agreement between her and her daughter.
Now, Wang Yaping, the "mother who picked the stars", has finally returned to her daughter safely.
When it comes to his family, Wang Yaping always looks happy.
She said, "I feel very fortunate that I have had a complete and happy family for so many years, my parents, lovers, daughters, they all fully supported my career, and I am very grateful for their contribution to the family, without them I would not have been able to go this far." ”
On September 1 this year, coinciding with the beginning of the school season, Wang Yaping also sent a message for the students of Beijing No. 22 Middle School through a video to send a message from the first class of the new semester.
In the video, Wang Yaping said, "I want to tell the students that each of us is imperfect, so we all need to constantly enrich ourselves and improve ourselves through learning, so as to gain more knowledge and strength, maintain physical and mental health, and enrich our spiritual world." ”
Resources:
[1] Military Representative and Committee Style Record丨Wang Yaping: Be a good "sower" of aerospace dreams
[2] China Economic Weekly: "Role Model 7" | Wang Yaping: Engrave your thoughts on the "stars" Write your mission in the galaxy
[3] CPPCC Network: Wang Yaping's family, the most beautiful family!