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Senior Colonel Tang Hongbo (Chinese: 汤洪波; born October 1975) is a Chinese fighter pilot and People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut.He flew on his first spaceflight to the Tiangong space station as a part of the Shenzhou 12 mission, the first to visit the station.
Li Cong was born in a rural village in Fengfeng Mining District in Handan, Hebei in October 1989. [5] His family moved to the mining area when he was 5 years old. [6] [7] [8]He applied for recruitment of Air Force Aviation University when he was in third year of high school.
For this programme 19 astronauts were selected in 1971. [1] However, shortly after these plans were made, several leading scientists attached to the project were denounced, bringing progress to a standstill. [1] Instead, NASA astronaut Taylor Wang, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, became the first ethnically Chinese person in space in ...
On Thursday, three Chinese astronauts lifted off on the Shenzhou-17 spacecraft from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center deep in the Gobi Desert, heading for the Tiangong space station for a six ...
Tiangong, completed in late 2022, can house a maximum of three astronauts at an orbital altitude of up to 450 km (280 miles) and will have an operational lifespan of more than 15 years.
Completed in late 2022, Tiangong can house a maximum of three astronauts for months at an orbital altitude of up to 450 km (280 miles). It has a designed operational lifespan of at least 15 years.
Zhang Lu (Chinese: 张陆; born November 1976) is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program. [2] He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in August 1999, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1999. Zhang launched on the Shenzhou 15 mission to the Tiangong space station.
China's space agency is making final preparations to send a new crew to its space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put people on the moon by 2030. The three-member ...