CCTV *** news broadcast): Longteng Kyushu, spring warm world, in the Chinese space station, about 400 kilometers from the earth, the Shenzhou 17 astronaut crew who are on a "space business trip" is more than half of the schedule, and the three astronauts are happy to celebrate the New Year in the "space home".
On Chinese New Year's Eve, astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin specially put on festive "auspicious cloud clothes", hung blessing characters, pasted New Year paintings, and pasted Spring Festival couplets in the three sections of Tianhe core module, Wentian experimental module and Mengtian experimental module, dressed up with full of New Year flavor, and did not forget to send New Year wishes to the ground support team.
Even in space, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, dumplings, osmanthus cheese rice cake, eight treasure rice, and ten dishes meaning "perfect" are all New Year gift packages carefully prepared by ground researchers for the three astronauts.
This is the third time after Shenzhou 13 and Shenzhou 15 that Chinese have celebrated the Spring Festival in their "space homeland".
In the first three days of the Spring Festival holiday, the three astronauts can make independent arrangements, including with relatives, friends, colleagues, and free entertainment activities.