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标 题: Shenzhou V launch successful
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年10月15日19:32:57 星期三), 站内信件
China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, 38, was hurled into outer space by
Shenzhou-5 spacecraft at 9 a.m. Wednesday from Jiuquan Satellite Launch
Center in northwest China's Gansu Province.
Amidst deafening roars, the Shenzhou-5 manned spacecraft was lifted into the
sky by a Long March-II-F carrier rocket. Both the spacecraft and the carrier
rocket were designed and built by China independently.
Li Jinai, director-general of China's manned space program, announced success
of the launch about ten minutes after the blast- off, when the spacecraft
entered its preset orbit with precision.
This, China's maiden manned space flight is scheduled to last 21 hours.
Success of its launch means that China has become the third country capable
of sending people into outer space, following the United States and Russia.
"Today, our long-held manned space flight dream has finally come true," said
Hu Shixiang, vice director-general of China's manned space program.
The Chinese people's space dream could be traced to a fairy tale that has
been told since ancient time, about a woman of surpassing beauty flying to
the moon after taking some magic medicine, where she stays as the Moon
Goddess.
Back in the 14th century, a Chinese named Wan Hu attempted to send himself
into sky by lighting 47 gunpowder-packed bamboo tubes tied to his chair.
Although he got killed in this bold attempt, Wan has since been widely
regarded as the world's first person using rockets as a flight vehicle.
Thirty-three years ago, Hu Shixiang pressed the rocket blast- off button to
send China's first man-made satellite into space. China's space exploration
activities had since started.
Five years later, with the successful landing of the country's first
recoverable satellite, China turned out to be the third nation in the world
having acquired the space vehicle recovery technology. "This laid a solid
foundation for China's manned space flight program", said Wang Yongzhi, chief
designer of China's manned space program.
"The successful launch of Shenzhou-5 proves that China's space technology has
advanced from the research phase into the application phase," said Gu Yidong,
director-general and chief designer of the space application system under
China's manned space program.
Since China officially launched its manned space program in 1992, its experts
have resolved a range of technical problems with the astronaut system, space
application system, spacecraft system, rocket system and launch pad system.
Between 1999 and 2002, China successfully launched four experimental and
unmanned spacecraft, paving the way for this manned flight. The Jiuquan
Satellite Launch Center, located at the juncture area of the Badain Jardan
Desert and the Gobi Desert in northwest China's Gansu Province, is the
country's largest spaceport from which all the previous four spacecraft were
launched.
Yang is expected to land somewhere on the grassland in the central part of
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, north China, after orbiting the Earth 14
times.
Before being selected as the member of China's first batch of would-be
astronauts, Yang, a native of Suizhong County, northeast China's Liaoning
Province, is a veteran fighter pilot of the People's Liberation Army (PLA)
air force whose flight experience reached 1,350 hours.
In 1998, Yang and 13 other PLA fighter pilots were selected from 1,500
candidates to form the country's first team of would-be astronauts.
Su Shuangning, director-general of the astronaut system under China's manned
space program, noted that all would-be astronauts have become capable of
working and living in space after receiving tough physical, psychological and
technical training in the past five years.
Gu Yidong told Xinhua that the manned space program's ultimate goal for China
was to explore outer space and make a good use of the rich resources of
space.
Gu said human civilization is moving forward step by step with mankind's
domain expanding gradually from land to ocean, to sky and finally to outer
space, adding that outer space exploration has turned out to be an important
driving force for mankind's economic and social development.
From Xinhua
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我非常喜欢在有风有雨的季节计划自己;
有风有雨后的季节晒着阳光我昏昏睡去;
睡去的我依然在甜梦中将曾有过的温习;
温习昨天前天等等的种种激情与过去。
Jim Mural
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