The moon rows the Shenzhou and goes to the river of heaven at night - the chronicle of Shenzhou 13's flight to the sky

Xinhua News Agency, Jiuquan, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The moon rows on Shenzhou, and the starry night goes to the river in the sky -- a chronicle of Shenzhou 13's flight to the sky

In the early morning of Oct. 16, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center's manned space launch site was brightly lit by more than 100 spotlights. Beyond the lights, in the darkness of the night, there is an endless expanse of land.

The sky is even wider than the earth. The brightest of these stars is undoubtedly the Chinese space station.

More expansive than the sky, is the human heart and dreams - today, Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping, Ye Guangfu three Chinese astronauts in Shenzhou 13 re-expedition to space, to start China's longest manned flight so far.

This is an exploration full of courage, and this is an expedition with a dream.

As the final battle of the key technology verification phase of China's space station, the final battle, and the key battle of the space station's on-orbit construction process, Shenzhou XIII opens up the era of China's space station manned long-term stay. China's manned spaceflight program has set another milestone, and the Chinese nation has a new coordinate point in the vast universe.

Love the star, love the moon, love space

Assembly, testing, transit, inspection ...... launch site work a ring set of rings, as if marching music, layer by layer to promote, constantly exciting. Finally, this large symphony has entered the most exciting section: the launch is about to begin, the journey is in front of us.

On the evening of the 15th, the three astronauts left for the sky.

Ask the Sky Pavilion, ask the sky?

More than 900 years ago, on a clear autumn night, a Chinese poet asked for the sky, thinking that if he returned with the wind, there would be a jade palace in the sky.

Today, the romantic and rational children of China will begin another beyond the dream of flying to the real "Heavenly Palace" built by themselves. There, it is the accumulation of wisdom and blood and sweat of generations of astronauts, and it is the palace in the sky that makes Chinese astronauts and hundreds of millions of Chinese people feel very solid and very honorable.

"Comrade Commander-in-Chief, we have been ordered to carry out the manned mission of Shenzhou XIII, ready, please instruct!" Dressed in a white cabin space suit, Zhai Zhigang saluted and reported.

This is the second time that Zhai Zhigang has led the team as the commander of the "flying crew", and in 2008, he completed the first Chinese spacewalk.

This is the second time that Zhai Zhigang has led the team as the commander of the flight crew, and in 2008 he completed the first Chinese space walk.

The "space walk" took 19 minutes and 35 seconds, and the next road to heaven, Zhai Zhigang walked a long 13 years. During these 13 years, he has been the backup astronaut for the Shenzhou X and Shenzhou XII missions. Day in and day out training, time and time again to accept the selection, what support him all the way?

He only answered two words: "Love!"

Without love, there is no way to support enough to deliver youth and even life trials. That is the love of flight, the love of the profession, the love of the motherland space industry. In the rigorous, meticulous, calm, composed package, this love, incomparable hot.

"The five-star red flag flutters in the wind, and the victory song is so loud ......" The familiar song plays. From Shenzhou V to Shenzhou XIII, every trip of the astronauts is accompanied by this background music. There are tender voices in the song, from a group of children in the central and western regions - even higher mountains, can not block the wings of the dream. This "dialog between youth and the stars" will have an immense reverberation.

The children's eyes, more focused on the female astronaut Wang Yaping - 2013, the beautiful "space teacher" for the country's more than 60 million students on a remarkable space class, in many young people's hearts buried! The first time I've seen this, I've seen a lot of people who have been in the same boat for years.

This time, Wang Yaping will once again "take the children's eyes to touch the dream". "As long as you dare to have a dream, the courage to chase the dream, with wisdom and sweat to build their own dream spaceship, you will be able to usher in the launch moment of their dreams, flying to the vastness of the starry sky belonging to you!" Before flying, Wang Yaping said to the children.

For the first time out of space astronaut Ye Guangfu, space is the call of the dream, but also a harsh challenge. 6 months in orbit flight, complex and arduous experiments and test tasks, the physical and mental qualities of the astronauts, knowledge and skills, emergency response capabilities put forward a very high demand. The challenges faced by astronauts are unprecedented. For this reason, they have experienced more than 200 items of training in eight categories.

The heart is in the nine heavens, the road is under the feet, to realize the dream, always rely on one step at a time to struggle, which the sweat and tears, perhaps, only experienced people can appreciate.

"Learn from the astronauts! Salute to the astronauts!" Audience area, the masses from all over the world waved the five-star red flag in their hands and rhythmically shouted. Ethnic minority people dressed in costumes, dancing joyfully.

At this time, from the Chinese-haired old man to the tender child, everyone's eyes are shining stars. Each star, there may be a future surprise.

There is light, there are dreams, there are heroes

October 15, 2003, before the Ask the Sky Pavilion, "Singing of the Motherland" song, Zhai Zhigang and Yang Liwei embraced tightly, to send his comrade the first expedition to space.

18 years later, the same day, the same place, the same song, the two space heroes again appeared in the departure ceremony site, this time, is Yang Liwei for Zhai Zhigang send off.

History often uses coincidences to witness achievements.

Over the past 18 years, from one day to many days, from cabin experiments to space walks, from short-term stay to long-term stay ...... China's manned space program has made breakthroughs in the mastery of the sky and earth round-trip, space out of the cabin, rendezvous and docking and other key technologies, and steadily advancing into the stage of the space station.

Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping, Ye Guangfu three astronauts to start a six-month mission. This is the sixth mission of the key technology verification phase of the space station, but also the final battle. When this by a "60" and two "80" astronaut crew returned successfully, China's manned space program will enter the space station construction phase.

Liu Feng, a front-line staff member at the time, still has a deep memory of Yang Liwei's trip: it was the first time the Long March 2F rocket carried out a manned launch mission, when the astronauts rode in the elevator door slowly opened, Yang Liwei hand-held small square box walked out, calm eyes, firm footsteps.

Four eyes touch each other, Liu Feng's heart austere trembling, a moment on the wet eyes. What kind of conviction can make a person go to the unknown risk without any hesitation?

The manned space program is a high-risk endeavor, but there has never been a shortage of heroes. Not only the first expedition to space, but also rendezvous and docking, out of the capsule activities, through the black barrier ......

6 months of long-term space residence, the space station, the spacecraft, as well as the physical and mental health of the astronauts, have put forward a more stringent requirements. Astronauts' physical and mental health is negatively affected by the long period of time, the musculoskeletal system, the cardiovascular system weightlessness effect will be more prominent, there may be sleep disorders, fatigue, infections, gastrointestinal disorders and cardiovascular dysfunction and other problems, and the probability of emergent medical problems will also increase.

When Shenzhou XIII successfully lifted off, another rocket had been erected in position, and another spacecraft had been geared up and ready to respond to extreme situations.

In fact, the danger is not limited to space. In addition to the astronauts who have stepped into space, every process and every post of the scientific research participants are ordinary heroes.

The development of China's completely independent intellectual property rights of the extravehicular space suits, there are also common people do not know the danger. Before the delivery of the suits, volunteers are required to wear them and carry out low-pressure chamber tests to check their performance indicators in the near-vacuum simulation of outer space.

If there is even a small mistake, the lives of the volunteers will be seriously threatened. But every time volunteers are called for among researchers, people come forward to sign up.

In order to carry out the astronauts ground field survival training, the instructor team needs to set up a variety of harsh environments in the forest, the Gobi, walk the road that no one has ever walked, and explore the danger that no one else has ever explored.

There are highly toxic, volatile special fuel inspection, transportation and refueling work, but where there is a deflagration, leakage, the participants may pay the price of life.

If you don't have a thousand years of work in mind, you're not going to be able to make it to the next level. The first step in the process is to make sure that you have a good understanding of the situation, and that you have a good idea of what you are getting into.

In order to uphold the ideals and beliefs of generations of astronauts, the Shenzhou XIII crew entered the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, and in addition to carrying out special training and testing, activities such as the national flag-raising ceremony and paying homage to the memorial garden of the martyrs of the Dongfeng have also been written into the work manual. In Dongfeng Martyrs' Mausoleum, there are more than 700 heroes and forefathers who sacrificed their lives for the cause of Chinese spaceflight.

In order to inherit the spirit of manned spaceflight, the Shenzhou XIII mission planned a series of popular science and public welfare activities, Wang Yaping will once again become the "Wang teacher", but also combined with the opportunity of the traditional festivals, to promote China's traditional culture.

Liu Fenghuang, who saw off Yang Liwei's maiden voyage, appeared again in the crowd to see off the new "space trio". Now Liu Fenghuang has grown into a rocket deputy commander, he said that over the years, that kind of faith and courage, never lost.

When the Shenzhou XIII spacecraft rose up in the night, the hour hand was already pointing to the early morning of October 16th.

On October 16th, 57 years ago, a huge mushroom cloud rose up in the air on the Gobi Beach, and China's first atomic bomb was successfully detonated.

Selfless, remorseless, endless

"5,4,3,2,1, ignition!" At 0:23, the Long March 2F Remote Thirteen rocket rose up and went straight into the dome of the sky under the command of Commander Zero.

From erection to launch, this rocket has been "standing" for more than 5 months, becoming the longest standing rocket in China's space history.

As the first rocket in China's spaceflight history to integrate emergency rescue and launch tasks, the Long March 2F Remote Thirteen (LM2FRT13) rocket has been tasked with emergency duty since the launch of Shenzhou XII, and has been "looking up" at the starry night sky until Shenzhou XIII was sent into space.

The Chinese astronauts are the ones who look up to the sky with the Long March 2F Remote 13 rocket. Along with the accelerated progress of exploring the vast universe, China will build an independently built and independently operated space station through 11 intensive missions. In the meantime, there will be many recovery missions and verification of key technologies in orbit.

This is a lifelong endeavor. It has become the wish of many participants to take a full weekend off, but it is only a wish.

From Shenzhou I to Shenzhou XIII, each launch mission, assembly operation master Chen Wei has not been absent, by colleagues called "old master". Chen is in the heart of everyone is solid. 20 years, although his home in Shanghai, Chen is more familiar with the desert in the Gobi Dongfeng Space City, back to Shanghai is not accustomed to.

This is a cause that must not be distracted. If the data of the targeting orbit deviates by 0.1 degree, the entry point will deviate by hundreds of kilometers, and the consequences are unimaginable. Every launch, targeting personnel are the last batch of evacuation team members, until the rocket into the launch countdown 15 minutes, the rocket state has stabilized, before taking the evacuation of the car.

This is also a never-ending cause. 2011, Shenzhou VIII spacecraft and Tiangong 1 target vehicle to achieve axial docking, China's first unmanned space rendezvous and docking, becoming the world's third independent mastery of space rendezvous and docking technology.

On the 10th anniversary of the "space kiss", China's space ushered in the first radial rendezvous and docking. From unmanned to manned, from automatic to manual, from a few days to 6.5 hours, from axial docking to radial docking, in the endless exploration of the cosmos journey, manned spaceflight science and technology breakthroughs and innovations, but always on the road.

*** vibration, which was a world-class space launch problems. The United States, France and other countries in the rocket launch process, there has been a sustained dozens of seconds of *** vibration phenomenon. In the "space day" article, China's first astronaut Yang Liwei has also recalled the Shenzhou V mission in the *** vibration phenomenon: "The pain is getting stronger and stronger, the organs seem to be broken. It was almost too much for me to bear and I felt like I was dying."

Later in the mission, the astronaut said, "The rocket we rode on was so comfortable that we could barely feel the vibrations."

Unlike other satellite launch centers in China, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is located deep in the Gobi, with no settlements for tens of kilometers. The choice to come here is a choice of selfless dedication.

However, this is a natural desert, but the temple of science. The heavy and intensive aerospace mission also gives young people a platform and opportunity for rapid growth.2018, Chongqing boy Chen Qimeng graduated from college and chose to come here, a whole month always nosebleed, "too dry, completely different from the old home." Three years past, Chen Qimeng quickly grew into the backbone of the business, has escorted Yunhai No. 1 02 star, Shenzhou XII spacecraft and Shenzhou XIII spacecraft launch success.

"We will continue to spare no effort to let more young people with dreams and willingness to struggle to grow up and become successful in this hot space of Dongfeng." Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center party secretary Jiang Hanmin said.

Being in the desolate Gobi, but has a wonderful life. Just past the National Day holiday, the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft launch mission on the eve of the 120 couples in the launch pylons, held a grand collective wedding. Their wedding gift was a blessing video recorded in space by Chinese astronauts: "We send our sincerest blessings from space from the Chinese space station, wishing you all a happy wedding, a hundred years of good luck, and everlasting happiness."

That is the romance that belongs to astronauts.