In order to try to catch up with its enormous technological backwardness, China began to conquer space in the 1970s. Satellite launch, technical high school, training center, visited by the French astronaut Patrick Baudry, back in pictures on modest beginnings…
Account of the putting into orbit of the second satellite by François de Closets. He also says that the first one was launched on April 24, 1970, but we have no image. The only images he has to present are Chinese crowds cheering.
In China, the authorities want to catch up on their space conquest. The popular masses are increasingly interested in it. The children are taken to the Beijing Space Museum. And more than 400 students are trained for this conquest at the Space High School.
Visit of the Centre Médico-technique de l'Espace in the suburbs of Beijing, with the French spaceman Patrick BAUDRY. This is the Chinese cosmonaut training centre.