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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.
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.
A new crew of three Chinese astronauts, including the country's only woman spaceflight engineer, entered the Tiangong space station following an early morning launch into orbit.
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 ...
Shenzhou 17 (Chinese: 神舟十七号; pinyin: Shénzhōu Shíqī-hào; lit. 'Divine Boat Number 17') was a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station , launched on 26 October 2023. It carried three People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonauts on board a Shenzhou spacecraft.
He served as a fighter pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force, and was subsequently selected to be an astronaut in 2010. [4] His name was revealed as part of Group 2 in 2011. [5] He was on board the Tiangong space station as part of the Shenzhou 14 mission in 2022, spending 182 days in space. [6]
There would be many more trips Chinese astronauts will make to and from China’s newly built space station.. As the old crew landed on Tuesday, a new team of astronauts arrived at the Tiangong ...
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.