Fei Junlong's profile
Fei Junlong: Born in 1965 in Bacheng Town, Yangcheng Lake, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. In 1982, 17-year-old Fei Junlong stood out in the army's "recruitment" , graduated from Changchun Aviation School in 1986, and married his wife, who also graduated from the aviation school, in 1991. Since then, he has been transferred to Gansu, Beijing and other places. In 1998, Fei Junlong was selected to Beijing Aerospace City and became China's first batch of astronaut training team members.
He has only returned home 6 times after serving in the army for 23 years
According to Hong Kong's "Wen Wei Po", Fei Junlong's hometown is located in Bacheng, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. This small town by Yangcheng Lake is currently bustling with activity. Hairy crab cultural festival is held. At this time of year, Fei’s mother misses her son who loves to eat hairy crabs. It is understood that Fei Junlong has been in the army for 23 years and has only returned home 6 times. Each time he came and left quietly and almost never went out. Many people in the surrounding area don't know that the honest child named "San Nannan" more than 20 years ago may now become an astronaut flying "Shenzhou 6".
Be careful and hard-working
Fei Junlong’s home is a gray cement building. It is a typical Jiangnan farmhouse. It is a bit shabby, but simple and clean. Speaking of Fei Junlong, his eldest sister Fei Meiqin looked proud. "The family was poor at that time, and my younger brother was earning work points while going to school when he was more than 10 years old. He carried wheat and rice ears, and even carried river mud, earning only three work points a day. He is a very careful person, and the physical work is heavy. I have never fallen, and I don’t have a single scar on my body, so I passed the recruitment process.”
In 1982, 17-year-old Fei Junlong became a pilot through the Air Force recruitment. In 1991, he became a pilot. His wife, who also graduated from an aviation school, got married. In 1998, he became the first batch of Chinese astronaut training team members. Today, Fei Junlong's family of three lives in Beijing, and his 14-year-old son is studying at a foreign language school.
In the eyes of the Fei family, Fei Junlong is a filial son and has been very well-behaved since he was a child. After joining the army, although I was separated from my parents, I always called home every week to say hello. I also sent four to five thousand yuan home every year, asking my parents to eat more and wear more clothes. He can only go home to visit his relatives once every four years. As soon as he gets home, he is busy doing housework, cooking and honoring his parents. But the details of his work were never mentioned to his parents. Before and after several training trips to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, Fei Junlong returned home twice, and his family only knew that he had been abroad. It wasn't until February 2003, when Fei Junlong's family of three returned to Kunshan to visit their relatives. When the two elders of the Fei family heard that their son and his comrades were asked to go home to visit relatives, they realized that they were about to embark on an important mission.
Character’s name: Nie Haisheng (1964)
Character’s country: China
Pilot
Name: Nie Haisheng
Date of birth: Born in 1964
Place of Birth: Zaoyang, Hubei Province, China
Occupation: First-class pilot of the Air Force, third-class astronaut of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Astronaut Brigade.
Nie Haisheng has eight siblings, and he is the sixth. With a large population and little harvest from the fields, sweet potato noodles, mixed flour pancakes, dried radish, pickles, and miso are the main dishes on the family table.
Xu Datian, a teacher at Fanzhuang Village Primary School, said that when Nie Haisheng was in primary school, he often wore his sister's old shirts and went barefoot. Parents often worried about Nie Haisheng's tuition fee, which was only a few yuan, so they had to borrow money here and there. Sometimes, instead of tuition, the teacher handed over a rabbit. "I still remember that one time he sold me a big fish weighing 20 to 30 kilograms that he picked up, and paid the tuition with two yuan. He studied very hard, especially in mathematics, and was often the first to go ahead of schedule. Xiao Jucheng, a classmate of Nie Haisheng’s primary school and middle school and a teacher at Yangdang Town Central Primary School, said that Haisheng attended primary school between 1973 and 1978, when the system was not implemented in rural areas. Under the household responsibility system, the entire village practices collective labor. Every weekend or holiday, Hai Sheng and I always cut grass, lay down wheat, glean wheat ears, and pick cotton. Hai Sheng never complains.
Because his family was poor, he had very little living expenses and often brought some pickles to school to eat.
In 1980, Nie Haisheng's father died early due to illness. As the only able-bodied laborer in the family, he began to work digging ditches and did not go to school for several days. When his junior high school teacher Zhao Xin'an and the principal visited his home, they learned that Hai Sheng was dropping out of school due to his father's death. The principal made a statement on the spot: all tuition fees are free. If you have money, you will pay for future books. If you don't have money, they will be waived!
Handle dangerous situations calmly
In March 1983, when Nie Haisheng was in his second year of high school, the army went to the school to recruit pilot students. Seven students from Zaoyang No. 1 Middle School were selected, and three students from Nie Haisheng’s class were selected and admitted to the Changchun Air Force Flying Academy.
Besides being happy for Nie Haisheng, being selected as a pilot may also have another meaning. After joining the army, all living expenses will be borne by the state, which can reduce the burden on his family. After completing all the procedures, Nie Haisheng left his hometown. After that, he was greeted by a 22-year long military career and an extremely glorious experience as an astronaut.
On June 12, 1989, Nie Haisheng flew solo for the first time in a certain type of fighter aircraft after starting the modification. The next day, he met with an accident.
That day, just as he was about to fly to an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, he heard a "bang" outside the cockpit and the engine stopped. Instantly, the plane's speed and altitude dropped, and the temperature inside the cabin rose sharply. He calmly reported to the ground while trying to troubleshoot the problem.
All methods have been tried, but the plane is still falling. At this time, the ground command allowed him to parachute. But Nie Haisheng still wants to work hard. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he will fly the plane back! He tried to taxi the plane but was unable to do so due to the distance.
At this time, the plane was only four to five hundred meters above the ground. The rapidly descending plane brought huge overload and made it difficult to move. Finally, he had to press the ejection switch. At this time, he had black vision for a moment and knew nothing. When he opened his eyes, he had landed in a rice field. The plane fell into a ravine more than a hundred meters away from him, plunged into the soil more than ten meters deep, caught fire and exploded...
Accident On the 27th day after that, Nie Haisheng returned to the blue sky. It was later determined that the cause of the accident was a mechanical failure of the blades on the engine compressor. In view of Nie Haisheng's calm and calm handling of dangerous situations with good psychological quality and his courageous spirit of trying every means to save the plane, the army party committee recorded third-class merit for him.
Later, through his diligence and hard work, he became one of the three candidates for Shenzhou-5 astronauts, and finally watered his way to space with his sweat.