China Launches Shenzhou-23 With First Year-Long Mission
The crew will test long-duration spaceflight as one astronaut stays in orbit for a year and scientists run dozens of experiments.
- On Sunday, China launched the Shenzhou-23 spacecraft from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, carrying three astronauts who docked successfully with the Tiangong space station after a 3.5-hour flight.
- This mission includes a year-long stay for one astronaut to study long-duration human physiology, a crucial step for China's goal to land humans on the Moon by 2030. Crews previously remained in orbit for only six months.
- Payload specialist Li Jiaying, a former Hong Kong police inspector, is the first astronaut from Hong Kong to join a Chinese space mission. Commander Zhu Yangzhu and pilot Zhang Yuanzhi complete the trio.
- Scientists are conducting the world's first human "artificial embryo" experiment in space to study long-term reproduction, while Beijing tests hardware including the Mengzhou spacecraft and Long March-10 rockets for future lunar missions.
- The project accelerates China's space program amid an intensifying race with the United States, which targets a crewed lunar landing in 2028, as Beijing works toward a permanent lunar base with Russia by 2035.
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China launched the Shenzhou-23 spacecraft with three Tykonavts aboard to the national orbital station Tiangun.
China has sent three new taikonauts to the Chinese space station Tiangong. One of them will stay there for a year, a record for a Chinese astronaut. The aim is to investigate the effects of a prolonged stay in space on the body. This is important in view of a moon landing in 2030.
Shenzhou-23 astronauts enter Tiangong space station, taking group pictures with Shenzhou-21 crew for the eighth space get-together in China's aerospace history
The three astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou-23 spaceship have entered the Tiangong space station and met with another astronaut trio on Monday, starting a new round of in-orbit crew handover, according to Xinhua. The two crews then took group pictures for the eighth space get-together in China's aerospace history.
China sends astronaut on year-long space mission as it eyes 2030 moon landing
China sent three astronauts to its space station on Sunday, one of whom will stay for a year, a record length for the country, enabling the study of long-duration human physiology in space as Beijing works towards its ambition of a crewed moon landing by 2030.
Shenzhou-23 crew enters Tiangong space station, takes 'family photo' with Shenzhou-21 astronauts
The Shenzhou-23 crew, including Hong Kong's first astronaut Lai Ka-ying, successfully docked with the Tianhe core module of the Tiangong space station at 2.45am on Monday, about 3.5 hours after launch, the China Manned Space Agency announced.
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