"PROFESSOR, will you be away on business for five months?"
"Yes. But I'll be 1 you from high above. Make sure you hand in your papers on time!"
This isn't just a funny joke. It's based on a real 2 . One day before the Shenzhou-16 crew (乘组) went into space, China made public the names of its three astronauts. One of them, a man wearing glasses, got tons of 3 . His name is Gui Haichao. He works as a college professor.
Gui showed a 4 interest in science from an early age. One of his favorite books was The Encyclopedia for Children and Teenagers(《少年儿童百科全书》). He learned 5 about space from it. And the more the boy learned about this 6 place, the more he wanted to know about it. In 2003, Yang Liwei became the first Chinese man to travel into space. Gui was excited about the news. And he dreamed of going into space 7 one day.
With this dream in 8 , he entered Beihang University to study space science. His resolution to explore the unknown pushed him to 9 moving forward. In 2017, at the age of only 31, he became one of the 10 space science professors in China. Gui never forgot his dream of going into space. He knew this was 11 the best way to study its many mysteries. So, when China 12 its astronaut recruitment (招募) to college researchers in 2018, Gui immediately signed up (报名). The 13 was hard, but there was nothing that could keep him from making his lifelong dream 14 .
Are you 15 in the unknown? We hope you've answered yes. Who knows? Maybe one day, you'll be watching your friends and us from somewhere high above!
