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Shenzhou 18 (Chinese: 神舟十八号; pinyin: Shénzhōu Shíbā-hào; lit. 'Divine Boat Number 18') was a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station, launched on 25 April 2024. It carried three People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonauts on board a Shenzhou spacecraft.
The crew met with the astronauts from the previous Shenzhou-18 mission, "starting a new round of in-orbit crew handover," Xinhua said. The new Tiangong team will carry out experiments with an eye ...
Tiangong (Chinese: 天宫; pinyin: Tiāngōng; lit. 'Heavenly Palace'), [5] [6] officially the Tiangong space station [7] (Chinese: 天宫空间站; pinyin: Tiāngōng kōngjiānzhàn), is a permanently crewed space station constructed by China and operated by China Manned Space Agency. [8]
Resupply mission crews and space tourists are excluded (see List of human spaceflights to the Tiangong space station for details). TSS commanders are listed in bold. "Duration" is the period of time between the crew's launch from Earth and until their decoupling from the TSS.
China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030. The Shenzhou-18 spacecraft lifted off ...
Since the Tiangong Space Station entered its normalized application and operation phase, it welcomed four missions in 2024 - two crewed missions and two cargo supplies - while seeing two crew rotations of some of the youngest faces of the post-90s generation, one of them being China's first female spaceflight engineer.
Delivered three taikonauts to the Tiangong space station; fourth crewed mission to Tiangong. ... mission to Tiangong. 7 Shenzhou 18: Ye Guangfu ... 2024 Delivered 3 ...
China's Tiangong is expected to be completed by the end of this year. It comes amid Russia's plans to disengage from a Washington-led space station.