Chapter 59 58. Yang Liwei - space hero

Yang Liwei, male, Han nationality, from Xingcheng City, Liaoning Province, a member of the Communist Party of China. Born in 1965 and joined the army in 1983, he is currently the deputy director of the China Astronaut Research and Training Center and a special astronaut. On October 15, 2003, Yang Liwei, as an astronaut who carried out my country's first manned spaceflight mission, was not afraid of hardships and dangers, and dared to be the first. He has won great honor for the motherland, the people and the nation.Yang Liwei was an excellent Air Force pilot before being selected as an astronaut. Faced with the call of the motherland, he resolutely devoted himself to the new manned spaceflight business.In order to adapt to the new task, he cherishes time like gold, is diligent and willing to study hard. In less than two years, he has completed more than 10 high-tech courses such as the basics of manned spaceflight engineering and the basics of aerospace medicine, and all of them have achieved excellent results in the assessment.In order to master excellent aerospace skills, he constantly challenged himself, surpassed himself, overcome difficulties, practiced hard day after day, tackled key problems one by one, and successfully completed nearly 100 projects in 58 majors in 8 categories within 5 years. He has mastered the flight procedures and operating procedures proficiently, and was selected into the first flight echelon with the excellent results of the first place in the professional technical assessment.During the first flight mission, he was calm and calm, and successfully completed the sacred mission entrusted by the party and the people with good quality, strong will and excellent skills.He is a representative of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In 2003, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, and the Central Military Commission awarded him the honorary title of "Aerospace Hero" and awarded him the "Aerospace Meritorious Medal".

Yang Liwei was born in Suizhong County, Liaoning Province, in Northeast China. His mother was a Chinese teacher in a middle school in the county. His father was a teacher first, and later changed to an administrative job.Yang Liwei's wife is also an officer of the People's Liberation Army, and they have a lovely son. Yang Liwei's hometown is close to the Bohai Bay. The sea has nurtured him, and at the same time shaped his resolute, simple, quiet and gentle character.When he was a child, facing the blue sea, he had a dream that one day he could fly high in the blue sky like a seagull.

Yang Liwei was admitted to the Eighth Flight Academy of the Air Force in 1983 at the age of 18, and became an excellent fighter pilot four years later. In 1998, he passed the qualification test for astronauts, and his clinical medicine and aerospace physiological functions were all excellent.Together with 13 other outstanding pilots of the Air Force, he became China's first generation of astronauts. Yang Liwei had the rank of lieutenant colonel before carrying out the Shenzhou V mission, and was promoted to colonel after returning from space. He was promoted to senior colonel on the eve of the Spring Festival in 2004, and was promoted to major general in July 2008. In 1987, Yang Liwei received a bachelor's degree from the Eighth Air Force Flying Academy of the People's Liberation Army.Before starting his career as an astronaut, Yang Liwei had 1,350 hours of fighter jet flight experience.

In 2004, Yang Liwei began to study for a doctorate in public administration at Tsinghua University. In July 2003, Yang Liwei was evaluated by the Manned Space Engineering Astronaut Selection and Evaluation Committee, and had the ability to independently perform spaceflight, and was awarded the third-level astronaut qualification.In the preparation stage for the launch of the "Shenzhou" spacecraft, Yang Liwei was selected into the "3-person first flight echelon" with his excellent training performance and comprehensive quality, and was determined to be the chief candidate.

On October 15, 2003, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 9:00 Beijing time, the Long March 2F rocket sent Yang Liwei's Shenzhou 5 spacecraft into space.Before the launch, the selection of Chinese astronauts was not made public; the news that Yang Liwei was selected as the Shenzhou 5 astronaut was not released to the media until the day before the launch. In the middle of the mission, Yang Liwei displayed the national flags of China and the United Nations in space, expressing the good wishes of the Chinese people to use space peacefully for the benefit of all mankind. Considering that Shenzhou V might land in no man's land, his space capsule is equipped with basic survival tools such as guns, knives and tents.

After orbiting the earth for fourteen weeks and traveling more than 600,000 kilometers, Shenzhou-5 successfully landed at the main landing field in Inner Mongolia at 6:30 am on October 16, 2003, Beijing time. The actual landing point and the theoretical landing point The difference is 4.8 kilometers, and the return capsule is intact.Yang Liwei left the capsule 15 minutes after landing, and Premier Wen Jiabao congratulated him on the spot. When the motherland and the people gave the aerospace hero Yang Liwei the highest honor, Yang Liwei expressed his inner thoughts: "Thanks to the motherland and the people for training me, the glory belongs to the motherland, the glory belongs to the people, and the glory belongs to thousands of astronauts. The motherland is proud. I will continue to work hard and be ready to accept any task that the motherland and people entrust to me!"