On May 30, a payload specialist with a crew of three will depart for China’s Tiangong space station.
Aljazeera writes that three Chinese astronauts, including the first civilian astronaut, will travel to the Tiangong orbital station aboard the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft on Tuesday, May 30.
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A crew of three, including payload specialist Gui Haichao, will fly to the Chinese space station on the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft. This ship will be launched into space with the Long March-2F rocket, and the launch will take place from China’s Jiuquan cosmodrome.
According to the China Manned Flight Agency, all astronauts who flew into space before that were members of the People’s Liberation Army of China. Now, for the first time, Gui Haichao, a scientist from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Cosmonautics, will fly into space. It will be responsible for operating the payloads on the Tiangong space station. Also part of the new manned orbital mission is Jing Haipeng, the commander of the spacecraft that flew into space for the fourth time. The third member of the crew will be engineer Zhu Yangzhu.
The Shenzhou-16 mission is China’s first manned mission this year, replacing the previous crew stationed at Tiangong Station since November last year. It is worth remembering that the station itself was completely assembled in November 2022 and consists of three parts.
According to Chinese officials, once the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft is docked with the Tianhe module (the main part of the Tiangong station), the result will be a structure consisting of three station elements and three spacecraft. All three astronauts will spend about 5 months in orbit before returning to Earth.
China has spent billions of dollars on the space program in recent years to “cultivate and surpass” the United States. For this purpose, the Tiangong space station was built, on which various scientific experiments were carried out. It’s a kind of testing ground for testing the technologies needed for China to launch a manned mission to the moon. China wants to land astronauts on Earth’s satellite as early as 2030. If NASA manages to return a man to the moon in 2025, in this regard, the Chinese will not yet be able to “fade” the Americans.
It is known that the Tiangong station flies in near-Earth orbit at an altitude of 400 to 450 km, and its service life should be at least 10 years. Crews of three Chinese astronauts will constantly fly to the station to make the station operational.
So far, China has no plans to use its orbital station in the same way that the ISS is used, where astronauts from different countries can be found. And at the same time, the PRC openly declares that international cooperation is possible, but in what form is not yet clear.
It is worth remembering that due to disagreements between the USA and China, Washington banned NASA from cooperating with Beijing on the ISS 12 years ago.
As I wrote earlier, we remind you that Chinese astronauts at the Tiangong station recently tested the heat-to-electricity converter. Focus.
We also remind you that, as I wrote earlier, they found a new way to find planets very similar to Earth in China. Focus.
Source: Focus
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