Anyway, being idle is idle, seeing that Liang Tian didn't feel sleepy, Fang Yuan pestered the chief designer again, wanting to listen to him finish telling the story of the astronauts.

In the memory of the older generation, most of the first international commercial space missions carried out at our country's launch site were in 1990 when [Asia-1] was launched at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

This is indeed the first foreign satellite officially launched by China, but it is not the first time that it has carried out an international commercial mission.

If you go further, there are two more international missions, both of which are [Long March 2C].

The launch site is also not Xichang, but Jiuquan even earlier.

The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center launched the microgravity test device of the French company Matelmicro and the German company Intospace at the same time on August 5, 1987 and a year later.

Both of these are test devices and cannot be considered official satellite launches.

This does not affect the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center's resume, which is also marked with the label of its first international mission.

The success of these two microgravity test devices led to the later [Asia-1] mission.

Everything is mutually reinforcing.

After the 2.15 accident, China's international commercial aerospace industry urgently needs to use success to get out of the double dilemma - no international commercial insurance company is willing to accept the policy, and no foreign company is willing to entrust the launch.

Two crucial successes in 1997 followed at this time.

[Mabuhai 1] on August 20 and [Asia-Pacific 2R] on October 17.

Ji Zhidong did not serve as the commander-in-chief on the ground for these two missions.

After preaching around the world and helping [Mabuhai No. 1] get international commercial insurance, Ji Zhidong's body was no longer enough to support him to return to his original post and continue to reflect and heat.

Ji Zhidong did not leave aerospace because of this, but went to the Aerospace Research Institute.

With the rapid development of the world's space technology, simply turning a failed launch into a successful launch is not enough for China to maintain a place in the international commercial space industry.

When Ji Zhidong came to the Aerospace Research Institute, Liang Tian was almost at the stage of writing his graduation thesis.

Liang Tian's research direction is to kill multiple stars with one stone.

September 1, 1997 was the first test of this technology in our country.

The improved Long March-2C successfully launched two Iridium simulators from Motorola into predetermined orbits.

Ninety-eight days later, Chang-2C successfully put two real Iridium into its intended orbit.

Motorola has a contract of six Iridium satellites, which are launched in three parts, each of which is very accurate.

The successful commercial use of multi-satellite technology marks that China's international commercial aerospace has begun to get rid of the darkest moment and enter a stage of benign development.

How benign is it?

In the following three years, every rocket of our country was successful, and every one was accurate.

Killing multiple stars with one stone is the general direction of the development of aerospace technology, but it is not what Liang Tian really wants.

Since he was twenty years old, he has already had a dream of dying on the way to Mars.

What can carry this dream is not how many satellites a rocket can carry, but whether it can send human beings into space safely and bring them back to the earth safely.

Liang Tian wants to participate in the [921 Project] project.

92 is the year and 1 is the month.

The 921 Project is our country's manned space program.

This plan was approved in principle in June 1991.

Formally adopted at the January 1992 session.

Because at the meeting in January '92, everyone present at the meeting carefully expressed their attitude and signed.

The manned space project was officially named "Project 921".

Liang Tian wanted to be a part of the project.

He told Ji Zhidong about this idea.

Ji Zhidong told Liang Tian about a manned space program that few people know about: "Our country's manned space program has actually existed since the year you were born. ”

“1970？” Liang Tian was a little incredulous, "When I was born, we dared to think about manned spaceflight?" At that time, apart from the launch of a [Dongfanghong No. 1], what else was there? ”

Ji Zhidong: "It is because of the success of [Dongfanghong No. 1] that we will have a more ambitious [714 Project]. ”

"In April 1971, our country put manned space flight on the agenda?" Liang Tian still felt a little incredulous.

There was indeed no such thing in the information he was able to find at that time.

Ji Zhidong told Fang Yuan that there was no need to make a fuss.

At that time, our country's economy had not yet begun to take off, and the whole world was only concerned about the competition between the two superpowers in manned spaceflight at that time.

These two countries, both in the 1960s, completed different forms of manned spaceflight.

After the great success of [Dongfanghong 1], the Chinese astronauts came up with such an idea, which is not too ambitious.

Later, the codename of the spacecraft that our country actually carried out manned space missions was [Shenzhou].

The manned spacecraft program in the 1970s also had its own spacecraft code name - [Dawn].

It's not too ambitious to have this idea, but when you really push it down, you find that building a manned spacecraft and building a rocket to launch satellites are not the same thing.

At that time, our country still only had the [Long March-1] carrier rocket to count the seconds, which was far from reaching the thrust required by the manned spacecraft.

The spaceship's system is even more complex than you can imagine.

These problems are not completely impossible to overcome.

As long as there is no cap on R&D investment.

With the level of economic development of our country at that time, it was impossible to be satisfied.

The Dawning spacecraft project of Project 714 was quickly shelved in a filing cabinet.

This shelving has been shelved for twenty years.

It's like the first love complex that many people have.

Shuguang is the white moonlight in the minds of Chinese astronauts who are committed to manned spaceflight.

Every day the project is stranded, astronauts are looking forward to seeing a restart.

Ji Zhidong is one of these astronauts.

As soon as the 921 Project was established, Ji Zhidong wanted to devote himself wholeheartedly to it.

Ji Zhidong's biggest dream in life is to be the ground commander of China's manned space flight.

He persevered until 1997, and persisted until the darkest moment of China's aerospace industry, but he failed to hold on until November 20, 1999, when the Shenzhou-1 test spacecraft was launched.

At this time, it was only a test, and there were still four years before our country really sent astronauts into space [Shenzhou 5].

Even if it was an experiment, Ji Zhidong did not persist until that day.

If there is no 2.15 accident, if there is no overnight whitehead, Ji Zhidong should not leave the front line until after [Shenzhou 5].

In this way, Ji Zhidong's career will not have regrets.

Liang Tian has always felt sorry for Dongge.

Ji Zhidong himself quickly adjusted.

After he arrived at the Shanghai Eighth Academy of Astronautics, he paid more attention to more than just manned spaceflight.

There is also the second national strategy in our country's aerospace field after the [two bombs and one satellite].