Fools dreaming - the story of astronauts who simulated SPACE walking in China...

Author: Chris Yuan

CoFounder Planet Expedition Commander Academy, Explorers Club member, and Space Dreamer...

​Looking up at the stars and yearning to explore the unknown depths of space must have been written by God into human genes.
Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in western China have many inaccessible and barren desert landforms, similar to the Moon and Mars. When arriving in these geographic environments and looking up at the distant stars and gleaming Milky Way in the night sky, many tourists say: "I only know now that we live in the universe, this place is so alien!".
Although China is a country with developed aerospace in the world, the aerospace industry is more like a symbol of pride for the country and the nation. Ordinary people do not have many paths to truly experience space exploration. But the role of the "genes" of human space exploration is powerful.
Since 2019, the abandoned oil base in Delingha City, Qinghai, China, and the Gobi Desert of the Great Highway in Xinjiang, some tourism agencies and private companies have begun to build some buildings that simulate alien habitats to receive and develop some groups of tourists. summer camp students. For self-driving tourists who come here, most of them will stop for a short time and rent a prop spacesuit to take pictures. The price of renting a spacesuit is 75-150 US dollars an hour.

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​仰望星空和向往探索未知的太空应该是上帝写在某些人类基因里的奥秘。
中国西部的新疆，内蒙古，以及青藏高原有着许多人迹罕至，寸草不生的戈壁，沙漠，雅丹地貌，类似月球和火星的地貌。
许多游客到达这些地理环境，在黑夜中看到头顶久违的星空闪烁，熠熠生辉的银河时，他们就会说：“我现在才知道我们是生活在宇宙之中，这个地方太像在外星了！”
中国虽然是世界上航天发达的国家，航天事业更像是国家和民族的骄傲象征，普通人并没有多少路径可以去真实体验太空探索。但是人类太空探索的“基因”的作用是强大的。
自2019年开始，中国青海德令哈市辖区的废弃的石油基地，新疆的大海道的戈壁滩上，一些旅游机构，私人企业开始建造一些模拟外星栖息地的建筑来接待开发一些一些成团的夏令营学生。对于慕名而来的的自驾车游客，他们多半会短暂停留，租一套道具宇航服拍照留念，出租宇航服的价格在75-150美元一小时。

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, also known as Earth’s Third Pole, is at high altitude and has strong ultraviolet rays. Since 2019, we have designed and planned the "Future Astronaut Training Camp", the predecessor of today's PECA (Planet Expedition Command Academy). In this program, the design, construction and wearing of a prop spacesuit to simulate an extraterrestrial walk is the finale of the training camp graduation.

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​青藏高原是地球的第三极，海拔高，紫外线强。自2019年开始，我们设计和策划了“未来宇航员训练营”，就是今天的PECA（Planet Expedition Command Academy） 的前身。在这个计划中，外星栖息地的设计，建造和穿道具宇航服模拟外星行走是训练营毕业的压轴戏。

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