China News Service, Beijing, October 4th (Wei Xianghui) "Building rockets", teaching aerospace knowledge, and exploring the mysteries of the universe... This is the daily life of a 9-year-old boy, Yan Hongsen.

In a telephone interview on the 3rd, Yan Hongsen's father told Chinanews that his son was repairing an airplane model for a classmate.

　　This year, Yan Hongsen has just entered the third grade of primary school, but he seems to be an experienced "astronautics teacher".

According to Yan's father, his son has a strong desire to export the knowledge he has learned, and he speaks well about aerospace knowledge at home.

In the first grade, the school's teacher was very open-minded and gave Yan Hongsen two class time, and let him give the students a space class all the way.

The picture shows Yan Hongsen's photo courtesy of the interviewee who taught aerospace knowledge at school

　　"He has prepared a lot of lessons and taught himself to make PPT." Father Yan said that he and his wife are both liberal arts students, and their mastery of physics and chemistry has now been surpassed by his son.

"He is a child with strong self-learning ability. Most of the knowledge is completed through his own research, research and practice."

　　According to Yan’s father, “When my son didn’t know words when he was a child, we used the computer to help him check it. Slowly, he figured out how to use his voice to check the data.” In order to study rockets, Yan Hongsen also taught himself about physics, chemistry and programming. The rocket model has been preliminarily set up.

The picture shows that Yan Hongsen made a ppt by himself in the first grade to give a lecture to his classmates.

　　So, how did this little boy's spaceflight dream light up and grow?

　　According to Yan's father's recollection, his son's passion for spaceflight originated from observing a rocket launch in Jiuquan when he was four years old.

　　One day in October 2017, Dad Yan took Yan Hongsen to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to watch the launch of the Long March 2D carrier rocket.

"I was shocked at the time." Yan Hongsen told Chinanews.com.

　　"We also accidentally discovered that our son likes spaceflight." Yan's father introduced that his son had a wide range of interests when he was a child.

"At that time, he still liked stones, trains, and cars. Anyway, he said that he liked many activities, but it faded after two days or two months. He only invested great enthusiasm for rockets and persisted until now. "

The picture shows Yan Hongsen's first time watching the rocket launch in Jiuquan at the age of 4. Photo courtesy of the interviewee

　　Yan Hongsen seemed to have a seed of an aerospace dream in his heart, which slowly took root.

When asked if he had ever wanted to do related work, he said, "I thought about it."

　　In order to protect this seed, Yan Hongsen's parents made a lot of efforts.

"Since my son was 5 years old, our travel destinations were all related to aerospace, and we began to check in at the aerospace science and technology museums, listen to aerospace lectures, and also went to Wenchang, Xichang, Jiuquan and other satellite launch centers and various spacecraft return points, China Mars base, etc."

　　Yan's father introduced that at the beginning of this year, he demolished the wall of the living room, sold the sofa, and made room to remodel a small studio for his son.

"He can do handicrafts and experiments here. He likes to be a little teacher to teach us lessons, so I bought him a blackboard."

　　At times, Yan Hongsen would concentrate entirely on his research interests, and Yan's father had worried that his son lacked the ability to communicate with others.

But recently, he has discovered that this may be "overthinking".

　　"It's a little 'social cow' to meet like-minded people." Dad Yan recalled that on the second day of the National Day holiday, he took his son to participate in the activities of the Astronomical Association.

When communicating with those from the professional field, Yan Hongsen did not feel stage fright at all, but asked many questions enthusiastically.

The picture shows the school awarding Yan Hongsen the "Little Aerospace Lecturer" Photo courtesy of the interviewee

　　Father Yan told Chinanews.com that his son's self-made rocket has now received the care and help of many experts in the aerospace field. When encountering problems, he can get the most authoritative solutions in time.

"It will be successful in another year or two." Yan Hongsen said optimistically.

　　In fact, Yan Hongsen has already received attention from the outside world long before the homemade rocket.

In July of this year, he was "officially liked" by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense for correcting the error of a rocket demonstration video in a planetarium, and was also called "Rocket Boy" by netizens.

　　In Yan's father's view, the important thing about his son's rocket building is the process, not the result.

"In the past two or three years, how much difficulty he has to face in building a rocket and how much he can learn is what I value. He has to learn chemistry, mathematics, physics, programming, and then integrate these knowledge into a project. It's actually quite a great thing." (End)