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In 2003, when Yang Liwei realized the Chinese dream of flying, and the whole country cheered for him, Wang Yaping, who had become a transport plane pilot, secretly vowed that he must become a female astronaut.
It took ten years for her to fulfill her dream of flying into the sky to flying into space, the first time she flew into space may be curiosity, but the second time she went into space, it was courage.
After returning to Earth, Wang Yaping told about her half-year journey to space, and her promise to her daughter to "pick up the stars" made people feel extremely sad.
In order to become an astronaut, Wang Yaping sacrificed too much, as China's first female astronaut who successfully exited the capsule, what did she experience on this road?
Shandong girl's aerospace dream
My hometown is in Yantai, and my dream is in the starry sky.
Wang Yaping is a native of Yantai, Shandong, and a Shandong girl who grew up eating mackerel stuffed dumplings, her parents are ordinary farmers, and the only source of income for her family is the cherry trees she planted.
When Wang Yaping was a child, she always fantasized about how good it would be if she could fly freely in the sky like a bird in the sky, and at that time, the closest she was to the starry sky was when she climbed the cherry tree at night to see the stars.
His father always said to him: "You climb so high, why don't you go to the sky"?
At the age of 17, Wang Yaping became one of the seventh batch of female pilots, and only 37 of the female pilots in the country were recruited that year.
After rigorous training, she was finally able to look down on her hometown from the perspective of the sky, and this indescribable feeling made her very intoxicated.
In 2003, Shenzhou 5 was successfully launched, and Wang Yaping knew in her heart that she had found her more desirable goal, the vast starry sky beyond the earth.
But it is not so easy to become a female astronaut, and the effort and sweat will only be more than that of a male astronaut, but she has never considered gender to be the threshold for choosing an astronaut.
In May 2010, Wang Yaping finally became a member of the astronaut team and took over the mission of "Shenzhou 10", leaving her with only three years left.
Over the course of three years, she had to complete courses that would have taken her four years to complete, hundreds of subjects and thousands of hours of rigorous training.
If you want to face the harsh environment of the sky, you need to constantly break through your own limits in training again and again, this process is very hard, very tiring, and very painful, but in Wang Yaping's dictionary, he has never given up two words.
Finally in 2013, Wang Yaping flew into space on Shenzhou 10, and when she saw the blue earth, she was deeply touched in her heart.
"Picking the Stars" for Daughter
After landing in space for the first time, Wang Yaping also conducted a 40-minute science popularization session with more than 60 million teachers and students in 80,000 schools on the earth.
Because of this experience, Wang Yaping became the first "space teacher" in the mainland, and countless children are also looking forward to Wang Yaping's next lift-off.
On October 16, 2021, Wang Yaping ushered in the second lift-off mission, and she will take Shenzhou 13 with Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu to complete the lift-off mission.
The mission lasted 183 days, when her daughter was only 5 years old, Wang Yaping didn't know how to explain to her daughter after she left for half a year, so she had to say to her: "Mom will go to the sky to pick stars for you."
Before taking off, Wang Yaping specially customized a golden star and wrote on it what he wanted to do in space, as well as his blessings to his daughter.
Peace, happiness, dreams, victory, happiness, these are blessings to his daughter, but also to himself, and to the country, and then Wang Yaping embarked on his second lift-off road.
At the time of the triumph, countless people on the ground welcomed the three astronauts home, and Wang Yaping's daughter stood on the ground, holding flowers and greeting her mother very excitedly.
Due to the harsh space environment, Wang Yaping was carried off the plane by the staff, and she hugged her daughter at the first time and gave her daughter the "star" she picked off.
The moment she gave the star to her daughter, Wang Yaping smiled very happily, because she fulfilled her promise to her daughter and her motherland.
There are dangers in space at all times, and being able to return safely is indispensable to the efforts they have made behind them, and in the interview, Wang Yaping also told the story behind the astronauts.
The pride of the sea of stars is full of pride
If you want to "look at the starry sky", you must be down-to-earth, and only by making down-to-earth efforts will you have the confidence to meet the starry sky, which comes from their training to break through the limit day after day.
In an interview, Wang Yaping said that every astronaut does not have time to calculate how many hours of training a day, because no matter how late it is, they must complete the training task with high quality.
During training, there is a red button that you can press to pause training when you feel you can't hold on, but no astronaut has touched that button for so many years.
Every training is constantly challenging and breaking through their own limits, ordinary people's daily exercise, they can rest when they are tired, but they can't.
Only by breaking through the limits every time can they get closer to their dream of going to space, so they are happy after every training.
In the environment of space, it is obviously not enough to rely on various physical training, they also need to do a lot of training that breaks through the limits of physiology, such as enduring the feeling of vertigo on the swivel chair to make the specified movements.
This kind of training is to allow astronauts to overcome their physiological reactions, completely use willpower to control their bodies, and prevent knee-jerk movements.
At the same time, in order to combat the environment in space, astronauts have to train underwater every day, which is not an ordinary dive, because on them, there are more than a hundred kilograms of equipment.
In the centrifuge training, in order to overcome the discomfort caused by gravity, Wang Yaping trained the gravity of Hong, which was equivalent to eight of himself directly pressing on himself.
These trainings are not only for astronauts to successfully go to space, but also to complete the Chinese dream of flying, and by 2030, the mainland plans to achieve the first Chinese landing on the moon.
At that time, the "Chang'e to the Moon", which has been circulated for thousands of years, will also become a reality, and Wang Yaping is also preparing for the arrival of this dream with all astronauts.
On April 26, Shenzhou 17, which was on a mission in space, also opened its "home door" and welcomed the astronauts of Shenzhou 18 into the "Heavenly Palace".
The astronauts of Shenzhou 17 and Shenzhou 18 also completed the rendezvous in space and took a "family photo", which also reminded countless people of the moment when Yang Liwei took off.
The brilliant chapter of China's aerospace dream is constantly being written, and the Chinese's dream of flying is also moving step by step towards reality, when the Chinese set foot on the moon, will Wang Yaping be one of them?
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