2017年2月12日下午3时,最后一位“中国航天四老”任新民(其他三老是:屠守锷、黄纬禄、梁守槃)去世,享年102岁。对于中国航天领域的年轻人来说,任新民是“不知高到哪里去”的人物。他领导和参与了我国最早的液体导弹的研制工作,领导了我国第一颗人造卫星“东方红一号”的发射;此后,他先后担任我国多个大型航天工程的总设计师,我国导弹和航天事业从无到有的每一步发展,都留下了他的身影。 At 12 o’clock on February 12, 2017, at 3 pm, the last one, “China’s space shuttle four old” Ren Xinmin (the other three are: Tu Shouwan, Huang Weilu and Liang Shouwan) died at the age of 102. For young people in China’s aerospace field, Ren Xinmin is a character who “does not know where to go”. He led and participated in the earliest development of liquid missiles in China and led the launch of China’s first satellite, “Dongfanghong One.” Since then, he has successively served as the chief architect of many large-scale aerospace projects in China, Missiles and space undertakings from every step of development, have left his presence.