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student plays a spaceman

青少年模拟载人航天发射，在游戏中探索航天科学的奥秘。

yang zheng’s father is a soldier in the air force（空军）. yang sees his father as a hero, and wants to be a pilot like him.

  but 12-year-old yang could be even greater than his father.

  at 10.10 am, novermber 2, “shenzhou v” went up into the sky. little yang was the only “astronaut（宇航员）” on it. “i was so proud（自豪的）. i was flying higher than my father.” said yang.

  of course, yang was not in the real shenzhou v. he and 17 other junior 1 students from beijing’s hangtian middle school were in a show. they said they were in the jiuquan satellite launch center（酒泉卫星发射中心）in gansu.

  in fact, they were in the beijing donggaodi science museum’s big show room. there are 20 computers and three big screens（显示屏）. the spaceship is in the corner of the room.

quick to learn

  students only need three minutes to learn how to use the computers, before they begin to work.

  lst week’s show was 45 minutes long. shenzhou v stayed in space for only 10 minutes.

  “i am young astronaut yang zheng. i am now feeling every good,” yang said to “earth”.

  the students all had things to do. some had to make sure the satellite was okay, some took care of the spaceship, others had to find the spaceship after it came back to earth.

  “i become more interested in space. i want to work in china’s space station when i grow up,” said yang.

  zhang jingchen, 12, said he was nervous. he took care of the spaceship.