Jiuquan, 5 May (ZXS) -- Topic: Chinese astronauts have a new "family portrait" in space
China News Agency reporter Ma Shuaisha
On May 5, the Shenzhou 30 astronaut crew successfully arrived at the Chinese space station, and the Shenzhou 5 crew once again staged the famous scene of "space meeting". From preparing to welcome couplets, shooting space "family portraits" to freeze beautiful moments, to face-to-face work handover in the next 6 days, this space gathering of <> astronauts is full of rituals.
In the afternoon of the same day, after the Shenzhou spacecraft and the space station combination successfully achieved autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking, the Shenzhou 18 astronaut crew entered the orbital module from the spacecraft return module. At 22:<>, the long-awaited Shenzhou <> astronaut crew successfully opened the "home door" and welcomed the Shenzhou <> astronaut crew who came from afar to settle in the "Tiangong".
In the video screen, the three members of the Shenzhou 15 crew gathered around the "doorstep", and couldn't wait to greet the Shenzhou 16 crew. Subsequently, Jing Haipeng climbed out of the spacecraft's orbital module first and hugged Fei Junlong tightly, while Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu retreated to the sleeping area, shooting videos while enthusiastically welcoming the new crew into the sky and core module. After Jing Haipeng entered the core module, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao also entered the space station in turn with the help of the Shenzhou 15 crew.
The picture shows the Shenzhou 15 astronaut crew and the Shenzhou 16 astronaut crew "family portrait". Photo courtesy of China Manned Space Engineering Office
Six astronauts gathered in the sky and core module to share the joy of meeting "fellow countrymen" in space. Fei Junlong said bluntly, "I have been looking forward to you for a long time, and today I am very happy to finally look forward to you." ”
In order to leave this historical moment, the two crews took a "family photo". The background of the group photo is the welcome couplet specially prepared by the Shenzhou 15 crew to welcome the arrival of the Shenzhou 16 astronauts, "Fifteen dreams are triumphant, sixteen flying sky banner exhibition." Teammates are welcome". For this heart-warming little detail, netizens liked: "Unique Chinese romance!" "It's so ceremonial!"
As early as the media meeting before the flight, the Shenzhou 15 astronauts revealed that the crew had a common hobby - brush calligraphy. In the Shenzhou 16 crew, astronaut Gui Haichao also likes calligraphy, and the doctoral thesis defense announcement is written by him with a brush, which is unique.
Subsequently, the two crews of Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou <> will work and live together in orbit on the space station for <> days, during which time, the work that the two crews will hand over face-to-face is also attracting attention.
At present, there are a large number of different types of materials stored on the Chinese space station, including maintenance and operation related tools, food and clothing needed by astronauts, and experimental samples of application systems. Xia Qiaoli, deputy director of the space station system of the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said that these huge materials of the space station are classified and stored using the designed storage space, and the Shenzhou 15 crew needs to transfer the storage location of different types of materials to the Shenzhou 16 crew. In addition, the daily maintenance work of the space station also needs to be handed over.
"Since there are still differences between the training verification on the ground and the actual situation in orbit, the actual situation in orbit must be the best understood by the current crew." Xia Qiaoli said that in addition, the Shenzhou 15 crew will also exchange work and life experience in orbit with the new crew.
The Shenzhou 6 astronaut crew will return to the ground in early June. Xia Qiaoli said that in the evacuation stage, the Shenzhou <> crew needs to sort out the garbage before evacuation and return to the ground materials, set the status of the spacecraft, and the day before the evacuation, it will confirm the storage status of materials with the ground, docking channel excess inspection and other work. (End)