On Oct.16,2016,Chinese astronauts of the Shenzhou-11 mission(任務),Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong,met the press(新聞發布會)Sunday ahead of Monday's launch.
Sitting under a national flag,the astronauts1in good spirits andanswered several questions.
" 2the job is challenging,risky and dangerous,there is nothing more I would rather do."Jing Haipeng,50,who is commander of this mission,told reporters.It will be Jing's 3 spaceflight following his Shenzhou-7 mission in September 2008 and Shenzhou-9 mission in March 2012.
On Monday,China successfully launched(發射)manned spacecraft Shenzhou-11 carrying the two astronauts who will remain in space for 33 days.The spacecraft was sent up at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in 4 China's Gobi desert at 7:30 am Beijing time Monday with a Long March-2F Y11 carrier rocket.The spacecraft has entered its designated orbit(軌道).The launch 5 a success by Zhang Youxia,about 19 minutes after the blast-off(發射).
Three weeks before the task,the family members of Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong still knew nothing.Chen Dong has been a (an) 6 for many years before joining the space team.He and his wife now have a pair of five-year-old twin sons.One-month mission is not the longest time that Chen 7 away from home.When he was a pilot,he once did not come back home for half a year during a mission.
Chen Dong described the experience as“no seeing,no 8”.But with the help of Virtual Reality(虛擬現實)(VR)technology,astronauts will meet their family during free time.“If I see them(family members),it will be different somehow.” Chen said.
For Jing,he looks very calm.In his first space mission on ShenzhouⅦ,his wife was so nervous 9 she almost did not sleep during these days.Now that it is his third,his wife has 10 it.