After China's first artificial earth satellite Dongfanghong-1 was launched into the sky, Qian Xuesen , then dean of the Fifth Academy of the Ministry of National Defense, proposed that China should engage in manned spaceflight. On July 14, 1970, after Mao Zedong read the report of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission on the selection of astronauts, he instructed the launch of China’s manned space program , named "Project 714", and named the spacecraft "Dawn One" , Planned to be launched in 1973, the spacecraft can take 2 people, similar to the Gemini spacecraft. Several previous suborbital flight tests carried out by rockets with animals (puppies and rats) have all been successful. However, due to factors such as insufficient national power and political turmoil, the Dawn No. 1 project was finally cancelled in March 1975.
On September 21, 1992, the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China approved the implementation of the manned space project and determined a three-step development strategy:
The first step is to launch a manned spacecraft and build a preliminary supporting experimental manned spacecraft Engineering, to carry out space application experiments.
The second step is to break through the rendezvous and docking technology of the manned spacecraft and the spacecraft after the successful launch of the first manned spacecraft, and use manned spacecraft technology to modify and launch a space laboratory to solve a certain scale The problem of space applications that are under special, short-term care.
The third step is to build a manned space station to solve the problem of large-scale, long-term manned space applications.
Since then, China's manned spaceflight industry is truly on track.
With the joint efforts of all the astronauts in my country, after 7 years of independent research and development, on November 20, 1999, my country successfully launched the Shenzhou-1 unmanned spacecraft, and achieved the landing of the return capsule, starting my country's manned spaceflight Fantastic prologue. In the following three years, my country successively launched Shenzhou-2, Shenzhou-3 and Shenzhou-4 unmanned spacecraft, successfully verifying the related technologies of manned spaceflight, and the Chinese people will have more space travel Coming closer. October 15, 2013 Yang Liwei drove the Shenzhou V manned spacecraft safely returned to the earth after 15 laps, declaring my country's successful breakthrough in manned space technology.
Space hero Yang Liwei
Shenzhou manned spacecraft
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