New Ideas Lead a New Journey: China's Space Station Chases Dreams of a Divine Boat in the Sky | Astronauts | Space Station
Recently, Shenzhou-16 took off, Shenzhou-15 triumphed, and the Chinese space station shone in space. In the vast universe of the new era, China has written a magnificent chapter in the aerospace dream, supporting the Chinese dream.
This is the second rendezvous of Chinese astronauts in space, which marks the first time that three generations of astronauts have gathered at the space station. The space station has welcomed three types of astronauts for the first time.
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From the maiden flight of Long March-5B in May 2020, marking the beginning of the space station phase of the mission, to the launch of Shenzhou-16, China has intensively carried out 14 launches, 4 manned spacecraft returns, and 11 astronauts leave the spacecraft. Five flight crews of 15 astronauts continue to stay and rotate in orbit, and the space station is completed as scheduled. In the new journey of exploring the vast universe, China has accelerated its space exploration.
Centered around the space station mission, the project has strengthened independent innovation and adhered to technological self-reliance and self-improvement. It has successively broken through and mastered a large number of key core technologies with independent intellectual property rights, independently developed Type 6 aircraft and Type 2 rockets, and ranked first in the world in terms of cargo to weight ratio for cargo spacecraft. We have established a complete three-dimensional integrated measurement and control system for land, sea, and sky, independently developed a new generation of "Feitian" extravehicular spacesuits, and broken through a series of key technologies such as regenerative environmental control and life support. The localization rate of core components has reached 100%.
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In the new era and new journey, the overall project will coordinate manned lunar exploration missions, develop reusable next-generation near Earth manned launch vehicles and spacecraft; Timely launch of extended modules, upgrading the basic configuration of the space station from a "T" shape to a "cross" shape, and utilizing the scientific experimental cabinets and large payload facilities arranged inside the space station module to carry out large-scale space science and technology experiments. In the future, China will also launch its first large-scale space survey telescope to carry out wide-area sky survey observations.