China News Service, Shaoshan, December 25 (Fu Jingyi) The "Chang'e 5 Backup Storage Moon Sample Handover Ceremony" was held in Shaoshan, Hunan on the 25th. The National Space Administration issued Chang'e 5 moon sample backup certificates and certificates to Hunan University and Shaoshan City. Certificate of Exhibits of Chang'e 5 Mission.
The Lunar Exploration 5 mission is China’s most complex aerospace system project with the largest technological span. It is marked by the return of the Chang’e 5 returner carrying 1731 grams of lunar samples in December 2020, and it has realized the lunar exploration project’s “circumnavigation, landing, and return”. "Return" the successful conclusion of the three-step development strategy.
Shaoshan, Hunan is China's only remote disaster recovery backup storage base for lunar soil samples, and it undertakes the important mission of preserving precious lunar soil samples.
After this event, the public welfare display lunar samples provided by the National Space Administration and the parachute test pieces of the Chang'e-5 return module will be exhibited in Shaoshan.
Lunar samples are on display in Shaoshan.
Photo by Yang Huafeng
Zhang Kejian, director of the China National Space Administration, said that the first lunar sample collected by China is a precious result obtained by tens of thousands of scientific and technological workers in their decades of hard work to build a space power and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Depositing the backup moon samples in Shaoshan is to comfort Chairman Mao’s long-cherished wish of “can go to the moon in nine days” and fully demonstrate the innovative achievements made by China’s aerospace in the new era. It is conducive to taking advantage of the resources of the red tourist resort, building and popularizing aerospace knowledge and promoting aerospace. A spiritual platform is of great significance to further stimulating patriotic enthusiasm and embarking on a new journey of the second centenary goal.
Zhang Kejian pointed out that the fourth phase of the current lunar exploration project and the planetary exploration project have been fully launched, and major projects such as the International Lunar Research Station, the marginal exploration of the solar system, and heavy launch vehicles are also vigorously advancing. More scientific research institutes, high-tech enterprises, and universities have joined the lunar and planetary exploration project to further promote the development of the aerospace industry, gather more innovative and entrepreneurial talents, and help the rapid development of Hunan's innovative technology industry.
Lunar samples are on display in Shaoshan.
Photo by Yang Huafeng
The ceremony was held at 9:30 in the morning of the same day. Leaders and guests presented flower baskets to the bronze statue of Mao Zedong. Student representatives from Shaoshan recited the original themed poem "Looking at the Moon in Nine Heavens, As You Wish". Everyone recalled the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee. Under the aerospace front, self-reliance, hard work and entrepreneurship.
At the Comrade Mao Zedong Memorial Hall in Shaoshan, lunar samples, the model of the Chang'e-5 probe, the parachute of the Chang'e-5 return module, and the Shenzhou-10 return module have been exhibited in the same exhibition area.
The lunar samples were shoveled samples from the Chang'e-5 mission. They were collected from the Tianchuan base in the northeast of the storm ocean on the front of the moon. They are a new type of lunar basalt.
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