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发信人: murjun (萧牧), 信区: English
标 题: Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut in space
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年10月15日19:59:54 星期三), 站内信件
With a Long March-II-F carrier rocket pushing Shenzhou-5 into the orbit some
300 kilometers away from the Earth Wednesday morning, Yang Liwei, 38, turns
out to be China's first astronaut in space.
At 9 a.m. Wednesday (Beijing time), Yang, aboard Shenzhou-5 white in color,
took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the Gobi desert in
northwest China's Gansu Province.
He is expected to land somewhere on a central Inner Mongolia grassland at 7
a.m. Thursday, after orbiting the earth 14 times. Yang will be traveling some
500,000 kilometers in space in 21 hours, a "traveler's record" in the world's
most populous nation with a 5,000-year-old civilization.
When Shenzhou-5 entered orbit on schedule, the ground command center received
a message sent by Yang from outer space, saying that "everything goes
smoothly". His name, however, had remained unknown until 5 a.m. Wednesday,
At 5 a.m. sharp Wednesday, Yang was seen waving his hands to a group of
journalists from inside a glass-shielded room at the Jiuquan launch center,
with two other astronauts sitting beside him as "backups".
Yang, who looked calm, found himself in a shower of camera flashlights. He
responded with a broad smile.
In an exclusive interview with Xinhua, Yang expressed full confidence in
China's first manned space flight
Su Shuangning, director-general and chief designer of the astronaut system
under China's manned space program, described Yang as a sober-minded person
with a "superb capability of self- control".
While a fighter pilot, Yang had 1,350 hours of flight experience. He was
chosen, along with 13 others, from among 1,500 pilots for space flight
training.
Yang's colleagues described him as a man with a good team spirit, a man of
dedication to his career. Friends at his hometown, Suizhong County of
northeast China's Liaoning Province, remember that Yang had dreamed of flying
when still a child.
Yang was recruited by the No. 2 Aviation College of the PLA Air Force in
September 1983 and became a fighter pilot after graduation with bachelor's
degree. In 1998, Yang became a member of China's first team of astronauts.
Yang, 168 cm tall, is a lieutenant colonel. He has an eight- year-old son,
and his wife, Zhang Yumei, also serves in China's space program.
According to Su Shuangning, China's first team of astronauts are all capable
of working and living in space thanks to five years of rigid physical,
psychological and technical training. He said that Yang Liwei was one of the
best in the team.
In an Astronaut Training Base in Beijing, China's would-be astronauts had
lessons necessary for space flight, including aviation dynamics, air
dynamics, geophysics, meteorology, astronomy, space navigation, design
principle and structure of rockets and spacecraft, as well as equipment
examination. Moreover, they received systematic training in space flight in
simulators.
"To establish myself as a qualified astronaut, I have studied harder than in
my college years and have received training much tougher than for a fighter
pilot," said Yang.
If the spaceship's re-entry module could not land at the pre- set areas and
the recovery team could not rush to the spot on time, the astronaut must act
for self-rescue. "Therefore, survival skills have become one of the most
important knowledge for the astronauts to grasp", said Su Shuangning.
"Through rigorous training, our astronauts have learned how to survive under
extreme conditions."
Twenty-five days before the launch of Shenzhou-5, the would-be astronauts
started exercising in the real spacecraft at the Jiuquan Launch Center.
"When I boarded the spacecraft for the first time, I couldn't help feeling
excited," Yang recalled. "I decided that I must fly it."
At 6:15 a.m. Wednesday, Yang got seated in the re-entry module of Shenzhou-5,
atop a 58.3-meter-high Long March-II-F carrier rocket. Between 1999 and 2002,
Long March-II-F carrier rockets were used to launch four unmanned spacecraft
into orbit, and all the launches were successful.
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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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