Recently, astronaut Liu Yang participated in the recording of the "Youth Talk" column of People's Daily Online, and she told the audience the story of her years as an astronaut. From the first flight in 2012 to the second flight in 2022, in ten years, China's aerospace industry has developed greatly, and Liu Yang's mental journey has also changed. Below, let's take a look at Liu Yang's story.
"Each of us is relying on hard work and perseverance day by day, step by step to carve ourselves into what we are now. Liu Yang, the first female astronaut in the mainland, said when participating in the recording of the "Youth Talk" column of People's Daily Online.
"The end of each mission is the beginning of the next mission, and every astronaut is like that, from the moment he returns to the ground, everything is zeroed. On the evening of December 4, 2022, the return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 manned spacecraft successfully landed, and Liu Yang successfully completed the mission for the second time.
In 2012, Liu Yang went to space as China's first female astronaut, and her name became a household name in an instant.
Liu Yang's relationship with aerospace began in 1997. That year, she was admitted to the Air Force Changchun Flight Academy, which is now the Air Force Aviation University, with a score of 31 points above the admission score, where the young eagle flapped its wings and flew into the blue sky.
Before becoming an astronaut, Liu Yang was a pilot. In a class, the teacher mentioned the first female astronaut in space, and said with emotion, "China is Chang'e's hometown, and space cannot be without Chinese women!" This sentence quietly took root in Liu Yang's heart.
In 2010, Liu Yang honorably joined the Chinese astronaut team.
Dizzy and disgusting vestibular training, Tarzan's overwhelming centrifuge training...... More than 30 basic theoretical knowledge, more than 140 training subjects in eight categories, and training programs that challenge the limits of physiology are coming one after another.
"I also doubted whether I could do it, but the times gave me such an opportunity, and I was really reluctant to give it up easily. In the face of various extreme challenges that ordinary people can hardly imagine, Liu Yang was also confused for a while, "But your ability is far beyond your imagination." ”
In March 2012, after more than 2 years of hard training, Liu Yang passed the comprehensive assessment of astronaut professional skills with excellent results and was successfully selected into the Shenzhou 9 flight crew. On June 16 of the same year, Liu Yang embarked on a journey to space. On June 5, 2022, Liu Yang knocked on the sky.
In the past ten years, she was elected vice president of the All-China Women's Federation, became a doctor of Tsinghua University, was appointed as the "image ambassador of China's aerospace public welfare", and became a mother of two children...... At the same time, Liu Yang has not forgotten his most fundamental professional "background" - astronaut. She devotes more time to training and preparing for the next battle in space.
In order to ensure the astronauts' spacewalk mission, astronauts need to wear underwater training suits to conduct a lot of training in the ground tank, master the coordination of movement in weightlessness, attitude control, as well as the methods and skills of space movement, space operation, cargo transportation and maintenance operations. "To overcome the resistance of the water at a depth of 10 meters, 4-8 hours of operation training every day, the end of the shore is already sweating, the body is overdrawn, a weight measurement, often light 2 to 3 pounds of weight, eating chopsticks hands are shaking. Liu Yang said.
On September 1, 2022, Liu Yang went out of the airlock cabin of the Wentian experimental module to carry out extravehicular activities, and when she completed all the scheduled tasks and returned to the hatch, she couldn't help but sigh when she watched a round of red sun erupting outside the cabin and the magnificent mountains and rivers: "China's space station is always worth looking forward to!"
Talking about the feelings of the two space missions, Liu Yang said, "The past ten years happen to be the second and third steps in the development of China's manned spaceflight. From 'Shen 9' to 'Shen 14', from the 'one-bedroom and one-living room' Tiangong-1 space laboratory to the 'three-bedroom and one-hall Chinese space station', it has been a decade of leapfrog development, full of pride and pride. ”
The Shenzhou 14 mission is the first manned mission in the construction stage of China's space station, and with the entry of the Mengtian experimental module, the configuration of the three cabins and two ships of the Chinese space station has been basically completed, and the Chinese have built a "space home" with their own wisdom and hands.
"China's space station is not only the space home of Chinese, but also the common 'space home' of people around the world who like to explore the universe peacefully, which is China's confidence and heart. Liu Yang said.
Source: Our space, People's Daily Online's "Youth Talk" column
Source: China Space Foundation