Original title: [Rushing Youth] "Drill Sky Yang" Tang Shengjie
On April 30, the Shenzhou-17 astronauts returned to Earth, and Tang Shengjie, the first astronaut from Gansu to carry out a manned mission, went out of the capsule safely and smoothly.
As the first astronaut to fly in Feitian's hometown, 35-year-old Tang Shengjie is also the youngest astronaut to enter China's space station.
Hard-working, self-motivated, studying, persistent...... In the eyes of his family and teachers, these advantages are combined, which is the support for Tang Shengjie to "go far and fly high".
Before the height of the donkey, he followed his mother to plow the plough
In December 1989, Tang Shengzhuo was born in Kewan Society, Xiaoxi Village, Xigongyi Town, Anding District, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, the third oldest in the family, with two older sisters. My father worked in the county seat.
"He has talked less since he was a child, he is bold and has the right ideas. Speaking of Tang Shengjie's childhood anecdotes, Tang Shengjie's mother Yin Huiling opened the conversation.
Although Tang's mother is a rural woman, she is optimistic and capable. In addition to taking care of her three children, she is busy in 24 acres of barren fields all year round, and only when the farming season is busy can her father take leave to go home to help harvest the crops. Witnessing his mother's hard work, the young Tang Shengjie and his sisters always went home from school to do farm work first.
"At that time, Shengjie was only 7 years old, and he was not as tall as a donkey, so he followed me to plow the land. More than 20 years have passed, and my mother still remembers the way he farmed the land. It wasn't until his sophomore year of high school that his family moved from the countryside to the county seat, and he no longer cultivated the land during his vacations.
can endure hardships, not complain, my mother always sees it in her eyes and hurts in her heart.
When he was in elementary school, the school was far away from home, and Tang Shengjie and his two sisters had to walk for two hours each day on the mountain road. This long road to school, Tang Shengjie has been walking for 8 years.
"Sometimes it rains or snows, and the baby is too young, and I say I can not go to school, but he is always rain or shine. His mother said that on the winding and rugged mountain road of the Loess Plateau, Tang Shengjie's small schoolbag contained a few pieces of sorghum bun in addition to books and homework books, which was his lunch. ”
Going to school is Tang Shengjie's happiest thing. He and his friends ran all the way on the steep mountain road, spilling laughter all the way. In winter, when the mountain road is icy, it becomes their slide, and the partners slide all the way down hand in hand, some of the crotch of their pants are torn, but everyone is happy and happy.
4 rows, 2 from the right, Tang Shengjie
When I was in high school, I had a dream of aerospace in my heart
Whether in study or work, Tang Shengjie has always been very motivated.
In the eyes of the second sister Tang Haiyan, the younger brother is very sunny and sensible, "Whether it is when I am in school or after enlisting in the army, I always report good news and not bad news, and I don't let my family worry no matter how big the difficulties are, I can endure hardships and am very self-motivated." ”
Although the mother could not read a few words, she often taught her three children to cherish the opportunity to learn. Tang Shengjie's father worked at the Dingxi Dry Agriculture Research Center. Although his father was an ordinary worker, Tang Shengjie went to his father's unit and often saw the scenes of uncles and aunts doing breeding experiments. At that time, the seeds of science were planted in his heart, and he was determined to work hard to learn scientific knowledge and grow up to do meaningful things. His grades have always been among the best, and he was admitted to Dingxi No. 1 Middle School in the high school entrance examination, and he also entered the key class.
Like most rural children, Tang Shengjie not only has the simplicity, diligence and tenacity of rural children, but also is full of freedom and ability at the age of Shaohua. During his high school years, he loved sports very much, and after class, he would run to the playground to exercise and play, play basketball, play single and parallel bars, and during recess, his green and sunny face often had beads of sweat.
"Among the 2008 graduates, I am deeply impressed by Tang Shengjie, honest, helpful, excellent grades in various subjects, and a dream of aerospace during school," Tang Shengjie's high school Chinese teacher He Fenghui commented on Tang Shengjie, who has an active mind, a wide range of reading, and likes to study and explore scientific and humanities knowledge, "I especially like sports, basketball, table tennis, running and other sports, all excellent." ”
When chemistry teacher Wang Liehua talked about Tang Shengjie, the corners of his eyebrows were smiling. "He has a good scientific mind, especially in chemistry learning, he has a strong ability to explore, and in his usual study, not only does he complete his homework well, but also often asks the teacher for some difficult questions. I remember that in a chemistry class, in order to stimulate the students' chemical thinking, Wang Liehua consciously designed a difficult problem of covalent compounds, and the students had a heated discussion, but they still could not draw conclusions. Tang Shengjie, who had just rushed into the classroom after exercising, thought for a while, and gave his ideas for solving the problem, "His answer is very insightful, his thinking is also very clear, and his speech is also very vivid, especially the action of brushing the sweat on his hair left a deep impression on me." ”
In his junior year of high school, one of the points for the recruitment of air force pilots was set up in Dingxi No. 1 Middle School, and Tang Shengjie did not hesitate to sign up. After hundreds of strict physical examinations and layers of screening, in July 2008, Tang Shengjie got his wish and got the admission letter of the Air Force Aviation University and became a proud son of the blue sky.
As a fighter pilot, his tracks are all over the country
Since he was a child, he has always liked to pick up all kinds of electronic products, from TVs and radios to flashlights and light bulbs. Tang Haiyan remembered that the newly bought TV at home was secretly opened by Tang Shengjie to repair the back cover, and his mother cleaned him up after finding out.
Tang Shengjie's uncle Tang Qihui praised: "Shengjie has been different since he was a child, he is a capable doll. "The uncle's large and small electrical appliances are broken and handed over to Tang Shengjie for repair, and sometimes the wiring at home is short-circuited or malfunctioning, and Tang Shengjie repairs it, "I am born to study these things and love to study." ”
In order to support his hobby, his father specially bought him a set of electrical repair tools, so that later everyone in the village asked him to repair their electrical appliances.
In August 2008, Tang Shengjie came to the flight basic training base of the Air Force Aviation University to report and become an air force flight cadet and began his military career. The imaginary life in the military camp is handsome and cool, and after putting on the military uniform, he finds that the life of the military school is strict and boring. Here there are only stern instructors, straight queues, square "tofu blocks", devilish training...... It has nothing to do with the romance in my head. Fortunately, the foundation laid by him with hardships and hard work when he was a child quickly adapted to the life of the military academy and completed the transformation from a local youth to a qualified soldier and then to a qualified flight cadet.
From an Air Force flight cadet to a real Air Force pilot, he has to go through assessments again and again, and the elimination rate has reached 70%. From theory to actual combat, from simulated operation to solo flight, from beginner training to advanced training aircraft, those comrades-in-arms who are still training side by side today may have to leave the team the next day because of a mistake in the assessment. Tang Shengjie kept in mind various flight methods, data, operation essentials, and equipment use. For each subject, Tang Shengjie has to practice over and over again. While dictating, simulate the operation until muscle memory is formed. With unremitting efforts, Tang Shengjie successfully passed the assessment again and again, became a fighter pilot, and realized his blue sky dream.
According to reports, in the past 13 years, Tang Shengjie's flight tracks have spread all over the motherland, flying safely for more than 1,000 hours, and he has been rated as a first-class pilot of the Air Force.
"Drill Sky Yang" pursues his dream of space and grows into a heroic astronaut
There are two kinds of trees on the campus of Dingxi No. 1 Middle School that have always been very famous and loved by teachers and students, one is the honeysuckle tree and the other is the diamond poplar. When Tang Shengjie was a student, there was a row of poplars taller than the building in front of the teaching building, they were neat and uniform, majestic and upright, and the children who lived and studied here also thrived like these poplars.
Tang Shengjie is also outstanding in liberal arts literacy, every time he does his homework is very serious, and the teacher often uses the Zhuantian Yang outside the classroom door to encourage him and his classmates, hoping that they can be tenacious and upright, and work hard. English teacher Gao Shuling recalled that although the high school study was hard, Tang Shengjie was very diligent, optimistic and confident, and it was these excellent qualities that made him an excellent student with all-round development of morality, intellect and body in Dingxi No. 1 Middle School.
"He's very attached to what he believes in, and he's never heard of giving up anything. The second sister, Tang Haiyan, said that even if outsiders look at things that cannot be achieved, he insists that "as long as you work hard, you will reap the rewards."
"He's emotionally stable, he's not impatient. Work seriously and focused, as long as he wants to do something, he will stick to it and never give up. This is Tang Shengjie in the eyes of his wife.
At the end of 2018, the olive branch of fate gave Tang Shengjie a new opportunity. This is that with the rapid development of the manned space industry, the state has launched a plan to select the third batch of astronauts.
"I want to fly higher and farther!" Tang Shengjie signed up without hesitation. With his excellent comprehensive quality, he passed the selection at various levels and became a member of the third batch of astronauts. He was very lucky and excited when he received the official notification of his selection. Since then, the dream of touching space has become closer and closer to him.
After a comprehensive evaluation, in June 2022, Tang Shengjie was selected as the crew of the Shenzhou 17 manned mission. After two years of hard training, I finally got a ticket to space. While Tang Shengjie felt that the mission was glorious, he thought more about how to hand over a satisfactory answer. The training goals of special tasks are clearer, and Tang Shengjie has higher requirements for himself, and he is sprinting towards the road of flying.
On October 26, 2023, the eyes of the world once again focused on the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Before asking the heavenly pavilion, the three astronauts of the Shenzhou 17 astronaut crew Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin were ordered to set out on the expedition, and they took steady steps to march into the sky and soar into space.
The teenager who was once resolute and sunny, diligent and motivated, good at thinking and fond of sports, just like those tall diamond poplars on campus, has grown into a heroic, capable and confident hero astronaut, and realized his dream of flying.
Text 丨Rushing News reporter Ouyang Haijie