International Space Station established in 1993 can be said to be the largest aerospace project for mankind. The International Space Station was jointly built by the United States and 16 countries, including the United States, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Belgium , Denmark, Netherlands , Norway, Spain, Sweden , Switzerland , 11 European countries, plus Japan, Canada and Brazil , a total of 16 countries.
However, due to the United States' world hegemony, the International Space Station did not participate; and we have also begun to independently build the space station road, and according to our plan, the Tiangong-1 space station can be built around 2022.
Now the International Space Station has reached its designed service life of 15 years and is expected to crash in 2024; but if so, it may be that in a few years that there will be only China's space station on the outer layer of the earth...
In order to avoid such a situation, the Americans on December 31, 2021, the White House issued an order to NASA, formally instructing it to keep the International Space Station running until 2030.
But no matter what, the Chinese have embarked on an independent path in the construction of space stations. In the future, astronauts from other countries want to conduct research on space stations, and China's Tiangong-1 is an inescapable link.
. According to news reports, all operating equipment of China Tiangong-1 are displayed in Chinese because netizens said: Foreign astronauts must learn Chinese well in the future.
In fact, this is no longer a joke, but a reality, and this reality even comes faster than what netizens predict!
"Looking at the vastness of the universe and looking down at the prosperity of the categories, so you can enjoy your eyes and mind, which is enough to make you entertain your eyes and enjoy your eyes and make you a great sense of Coke."
This sentence comes from the " Lanting Collection Preface " written by the famous Chinese calligrapher Wang Xizhi . Many Chinese people may not be familiar with this ancient saying. But recently, an Italian astronaut Samantha Christoforetti posted this ancient Chinese text in Chinese on her social media, with the picture showing her set of space photography works.
According to the accompanying pictures, some netizens speculated that it was the day and night photos of the Bohai Bay and Beijing taken from space when she was "passing" over China.
This passage from an Italian astronaut reflects her extremely high Chinese literacy, can understand Chinese ancient Chinese and quote them very smoothly to express her feelings, which is almost at the level of her mother tongue.
On October 13, this passage from the Italian astronaut even alarmed the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the spokesperson praised the Italian astronaut and said that exploring and peaceful use of outer space will also promote the common welfare of all mankind.
In fact, Christopherretti had already shown her Chinese skills as early as 2017.
At that time, she and another ESA astronaut came to the Chinese astronaut maritime training base in Yantai, Shandong. They conducted a 17-day sea life-saving training activity for China-Europe astronauts with Chinese astronauts Yang Liwei, Wang Yaping, Ye Guangfu, and others.
During the training, she accepted an interview with CCTV in fluent Chinese: " This is the first opportunity. Chinese astronauts and European astronauts are training together in China. Our teamwork is very smooth and very good. "
1 April 26, 21977, Samantha Christoforetti was born in Milan, Italy.
html When she was 14 years old, she saw the "Columbia" space shuttle launched on TV, and she learned about "space" for the first time.
html When she was 117 years old, she watched a science fiction work called " Star Trek ". Seeing the female captain in the film, she suddenly realized: she wanted to go to space and explore the unknown universe like them.
In 2001, at the age of 24, she graduated from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, specializing in aerospace propulsion and lightweight structures. In the same year, she was admitted to the Italian Air Force Academy with the first place and served as the class monitor for four years.
In 2004, she obtained a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Federico II in Naples, and in 2005 she received a master's degree in aviation science from the school. After that, she went to Shepard Air Force Base in the United States to participate in training, until she returned to Italy in 2006 and became a pilot with a bomber. She has flew at least six types of military aircraft, with flight time of more than 500 hours.
In 2009, she was selected from 8,500 candidates by European Space Agency, becoming the first female astronaut in Italy. Because of the adjustment of return time, she also unexpectedly set a record: she stayed in space for 200 days, becoming the person with the longest continuous stay in space at that time.
Of course, when Samantha Christoforetti was an astronaut, the Chinese who were excluded were still silently developing their own space stations independently.
However, things changed soon.
Since Tiangong-1 arrived in heaven in 2011, the Chinese space station entered a rapid orbit. Tiangong-1 Space Laboratory has successively completed multiple space rendezvous and docking with Shenzhou 8, Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 1 Shenzhou 10 spacecraft . The Chinese people's own space station technology has matured.
In 2015, the Europeans decided to take action, so China and Europe signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of manned space flight, including astronaut training cooperation activities. Since then, many European astronauts have begun to learn Chinese crazily, and Christoforetti is one of them.
Because in the near future, if they want to go to the space station, there may be only one choice for Tiangong. The Tiangong Space Station is completely independently built by my country. Both the display interface and the identification system of the space station use Chinese characters. If you don’t understand Chinese, you will have no chance to go to heaven.
Samantha Christopherti has become the news this year by proficiently using famous quotes from the ancient Chinese masterpiece "Preface to the Lanting Collection".
But it is estimated that in the near future, most foreign astronauts will skillfully speak and communicate in Chinese, and it will not be news at that time.
