The history of manned space research in China can be traced back to the early 1970s. After the launch of China's first artificial earth satellite, Dongfanghong-1, Qian Xuesen, then president of the Fifth National Defense Institute, proposed that China should carry out manned space flight. At that time, the country named the project "7 14 Project" (that is, 197 1 year) and named the spacecraft "Dawn 1". But after working for a period of time, China thought that there were some difficulties in developing manned space flight, no matter from the scientific research team and experience, or from the comprehensive national strength and industrial base, so he put the project on hold.

In the early 1970s, after China's first artificial earth satellite, Dongfanghong-1, it began to develop several communication satellites, such as Dongfanghong-2, Dongfanghong-2 A and Dongfanghong-3.

Since 1980s, China has made great progress in space technology, and has the ability to develop and launch various application satellites, such as recoverable satellites, meteorological satellites, resource satellites and communication satellites. Especially in 1975, China successfully launched and recovered the first recoverable satellite, making China the third country in the world to master satellite recovery technology after the United States and the former Soviet Union, laying a solid foundation for China to carry out manned space technology research.

1992 11October, the China municipal government approved the launch of the manned spaceflight project, which was named "921project". In the seven systems of "92 1 Project", manned spacecraft is the core, which is mainly developed by China Academy of Space Technology. When the "92 1 Project" was officially launched, the central government put forward the goal of "striving for 8 guarantees and 9 guarantees".

That is to say, 1998 will make a big breakthrough in technology, and 1999 will strive for the spacecraft to go to heaven. China Tangjialing Space City ensures the material conditions for China's manned spaceflight project to complete its manned space mission.

1999165438+1On October 20th, China's first unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou-1, took off in Jiuquan, and landed in the recycling yard in central Inner Mongolia 2/kloc-0 hours later, successfully completing the "virgin journey". The success of this flight laid a very solid foundation for China's manned spacecraft to go to heaven. China successfully launched the Shenzhou II spacecraft from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on1October1+10. On March 25th, 2002, China successfully launched the Shenzhou III spacecraft from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. On June 30th, 2002, China successfully launched the Shenzhou IV unmanned spacecraft from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

At 9: 00 on June 5438+1October 5, 2003, the Shenzhou 5 manned spacecraft independently developed by China was launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. At 9: 09: 50, Shenzhou 5 entered the scheduled orbit accurately. This is China's first manned space flight. The 38-year-old astronaut who carried out the mission in Shenzhou 5 manned spacecraft was Yang Liwei. He is the first generation of astronauts trained in China. He circled the earth in space 14 times. After a safe flight of 2 1 hour, 23 minutes and 600,000 kilometers, it successfully landed at the main landing site in Inner Mongolia at 6: 23 on 16. & gt& gt

From June 5438+1October 12 to June 5438+07, 2005, China successfully carried out the second manned space flight, which was the first time that two China astronauts were sent into space at the same time. & gt& gt

On June/KOOC-0/2, 2008, the spokesman of China Manned Space Engineering Office announced that the Shenzhou VII manned space mission would be carried out on June/KOOC-0/0, 2008, and the astronaut flight crew responsible for the mission had been determined, with three astronauts as flight crew and three astronauts as backup.