Chapter 1103 The Issue of Academician Quotas

The successful completion of the Shenzhou-5 mission almost immediately became the hottest topic at the end of 2003.

In particular, the large video clip of astronauts working in the return capsule was reprinted by major media within one day of broadcast.

As O'Keefe guessed, even many foreign media are also very interested in this content——

Mainly fresh.

After all, although humans have been conducting manned spaceflight activities for more than half a century, in fact, until the 21st century, what the outside world could directly see was relatively limited.

Basically just certain clips that have been edited.

It was only after the International Space Station was initially put into use in 2001 that there were some stable sources of images.

Therefore, for the public, space missions still have a lot of mystery.

As for the 20-minute cabin footage of Shenzhou 5, although the astronauts did not move much throughout the entire process, and the space inside the spacecraft's return capsule was also quite cramped, fortunately, the level of interaction was full, and the 480P video quality was considered in the 21st century. At first this would be called high definition.

Still continuous and real-time.

In fact, as early as the 1980s, the Americans considered using the high-coverage relay communication network that had just been built at that time to conduct long-term continuous live broadcasts of space activities in order to further overwhelm the Soviet and Eastern camps at the propaganda level.

For this purpose, a teacher, Christa McAuliffe, was specially selected as an astronaut and planned to provide space lessons to primary and secondary school students across the country.

But the one she flew on happened to be the unlucky Challenger space shuttle...

Afterwards, NASA announced that it would no longer allow ordinary people to participate in space shuttle missions, and the "Teachers in Space" project had to be shelved.

Later, with the end of the Cold War, the United States no longer had this need.

As a result, China took the lead.

In response, at a press conference held on the evening of October 16th, Eastern Time, after NASA expressed its apparently sincere congratulations to its Chinese counterparts, it also stated that it would consider carrying relevant equipment on the next expedition mission to demonstrate the Destiny experiment to the ground. Some daily situations inside the module or Unity node module.

There are even plans to open a separate channel on NASA's official website to specifically display this type of image content.

It should be said that in terms of technology in the aerospace field, the United States is undoubtedly dominant.

What started out as an almost long-term project.

But it is not difficult for a discerning person to see that this is completely a passive behavior after being stimulated by China.

On the contrary, it seems to have no structure.

Of course, considering the current absolute dominance of the United States in the field of space exploration, it is impossible for everyone to immediately defect to China for such a thing.

But to say that I have no idea at all...

That is definitely false too.

As for China, the focus of propaganda is still on the astronauts and the spacecraft itself.

In fact, some reporters paid attention to the technology behind that scene, but at Chang Haonan's request, they ended up making ambiguous and even misleading reports in the name of "space-based digital image transmission system."

The main reason is to avoid mentioning specific communication methods throughout the process, and try to make the outside world think that a traditional geosynchronous orbit relay satellite is playing a role.

The original intention of the Qingluan constellation was to serve military remote sensing satellites. Although it does not directly undertake military tasks, there is no harm in keeping a low profile.

For this reason, Chang Haonan, who appeared at Dongfeng Aerospace City, declined all interviews in the next few days and planned to return to the capital after handing over all the information——

The Qingluan constellation is essentially preparation for a group of practice series satellites with stronger performance and more complete functions.

Now that the feasibility of the technical route of mid- and low-orbit relay communication has been proven, it is natural to strike while the iron is hot to start the next step.

Although Zhang Weiyong can be responsible for the specific work of obtaining project approval, the technical route of the key payload is always proposed by Chang Haonan and organizes the entire test.

Therefore, he cannot be a hands-off shopkeeper in any case.

On the other hand, it is also related to the progress of academician selection.

To be honest, with Chang Haonan's current qualifications, honors, and even connections, it is a natural thing to be elected as an academician of any academy, and no one can find any reason.

However, Zhu Linyu and Lin Zuoming still said that the interests involved in this title are too great. Even if there is no problem in being selected, there is no guarantee that someone will not jump out to cause trouble out of jealousy.

Therefore, the two of them proposed that he leave the capital to "avoid suspicion."

But now, we are about to enter late October.

Logically speaking, the results of the first round of selection of academicians in 2003 should have been finalized, but they have not had time to be finally announced.

As long as the list comes out, Chang Haonan will have no worries at all and can show up in the capital openly.

In fact, even he himself was a little curious as to whether the final candidate would be the Academy of Sciences or the Academy of Engineering...

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In fact, the list of candidates for the second round of academician co-optation should be announced in early October as usual.

The reason why this year has been delayed for nearly half a month and there is still no movement...

It is precisely because of Chang Haonan himself.

October 20th, Beijing.

In an office of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vice President Du Wanxiang, who is in charge of this year's review work, is sitting at the table, facing the two lists in front of him, with a frown on his face.

At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared outside the door.

After knocking twice and finding no response, he simply walked in.

It was not until the man came in front of him that Du Wanxiang suddenly reacted.

Then he quickly prepared to stand up:

"President Xu?"

The person who came was the president of the Academy of Engineering, Academician Xu Dikuan.

Academician Xu waved his hand to indicate that it was okay, and then sat down opposite Du Wanxiang:

"Old Du, it's almost the end of October... Why haven't the results of the first round of additional selection and review this year been reported to the academy yet?"

When the other party asked about this, Du Wanxiang shook his head helplessly:

"We are still coordinating the quota issue with the Academy of Sciences..."

This answer confused the dean opposite:

"In principle, the academicians of our Academy of Engineering and Academy of Sciences are parallel and independent, and do not interfere with each other... Are there any quotas that need to be coordinated with them?"

Du Wanxiang rubbed his swollen head:

"It's because a talented player came out this year..."

He said, turning the two lists over and pushing them in front of Xu Dikuan at the same time.

The latter saw the circled name almost at first sight.

Moreover, it was seen on both lists at the same time...

"Professor Chang?"

Xu Dikuang took a deep breath, sat up a little straight, and his face was full of entanglement:

"Yeah... How could I forget him..."

Seeing this, Academician Du leaned forward a little and introduced in a low voice:

"The meaning of the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the Academy of Sciences is that Professor Chang won the first Fields Medal in the history of China last year. It is impossible not to give him an academician title..."

"But on our side, Professor Chang has also been jointly nominated by the Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Association, the Beijing Science and Technology Association, the Aviation Power Group, and six senior academicians. In addition, he has three national awards in his hands and has made immeasurable contributions to my country's aviation technology. There is absolutely no reason not to pass..."

"..."

After these words, Xu Dikuang's expression became even more twisted.

You know, the Chinese Academy of Engineering has only been established for less than 10 years, and it is now in a stage where it is in urgent need of recognition.

Even if we don't consider the background of these nominators and nominating units, based on Chang Haonan's own ability and contribution, as the dean, he also hopes to give him the title of academician of the Academy of Engineering.

It can only be said that some people need the title of academician to prove themselves.

But some people must be given the title of academician to prove the authority of this selection system.

But then again, Xu Dikuang is very clear.

If you have to choose between the two academies, most people will probably choose the Academy of Sciences with a deeper historical background...

"I can't think of it..."

After thinking fruitlessly, he could only smile bitterly and shook his head:

"There is still a day when I don't know how to give out this academician title..."