Invited by the Russian organi- zation concerned the Chinese Teenager Astronautics Delegation of 51 members jointly sent by the CPAFFC, the China Association for Science and Technology and the Chi nese Soc iety of Astronautics, went to participate in the astronautics summer camp in Russia from July 12 to 21. It is most accurate to call their visit to Russia a “trip of astronautic science and technol- ogy”. The delegation visited the Space Museum of Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the Mission Control Centre and the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in the city of Korolev, the Monino Air Force Museum and the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga. The summer camp included various activities of different forms which increased the knowledge of the students and widened their vision, deepening their love for astronautic undertakings. In the Space Museum of Rocket and Space Corporation Energia of Korolev, the students saw a spare copy of the world’s first artificial earth satellite, many Iand Tereshkova received their training in the same place, namely the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. According to the intro- duction, the centre has trained over 300 astronauts from dif- ferent countries since 1960. At the cen tre, the Russian cosmonautics specialist explained the Mir space station to the stu- dents, and proudly showed them the pictures which marked the grand success of the Soviet Un- ion in its astronautic cause. The students visited the model of Mir space station there, which was as big as the real one and was used to train the cos- monauts to perform their work in the space module. They also had a look round the underwater laboratory which simulated the zero gravity condition in space for the space work training, and a super sized centrifuge of 18 metres in length and 300 tons in weight which created the over- weight environment for flight training. Through their visit to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, the students gained more specific knowledge on what makes a good cosmonaut. To manned space shuttles and its duplicates, different carrier rock- ets made during and after the Soviet times and a duplicate of the Mir space station. In front of the re-entry modules which once carried the first cosmonaut Gagarin and the first woman cos- monaut Tereshkova, all the stu- dents were busy taking pictures to catch the unforgettable mo- ment. What was more unforgetta- ble was that at the Mission Con- trol Centre, the delegation had a face to face contact with two cosmonauts who not only had flown into the outer space, but also had carried out some tasks outside the module. Patiently they gave detailed answers to all kinds of questions raised by the stu- dents. It is widely known that on April 12, 1961, the world’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin flew into the outer space by the space- craft “Vostok I”, and safely landed after his 108-minute travel in space. Since then, many cos- monauts have been sent to space by the Soviet Union and Rus- sia. Before their flight to the space, cosmonauts like GagarinThe Chinese teenagers with the youth and children in Tishkovo, Russia a spindle-shaped spacecraft de- sign. He made achievements in many aspects of astronautic theories, greatly contributed to the astronautic cause of mankind. Because of this, the delegation went to Kaluga to visit the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics where the stu- dents learned the whole process of development of astronautical technology. To their amazement, the students found that the fore- father of rocket was a Chinese in ancient times, called Wan Hu. They also saw the model of “Vostok” carrier rocket, the model of the only unmanned space shuttle “Buran” of the So- viet Union, and the spacesuit, space food, etc.. During the ten-day summer camp, besides the above men- The Chinese Teenagers at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre master the complicated skills for operating a spacecraft a
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