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Member of the first three-person Chinese crew in space. Zhai Zhigang: 翟志刚 Shenzhou 7 (September 25–28, 2008) Shenzhou 13 (October 15, 2021–April 16, 2022) First Chinese national to walk in space. Commander of the first Chinese three-person crew in space. Liu Wang: 刘旺 Shenzhou 9 (June 16–29, 2012) Member of the first Chinese crew ...
Shanghai-born Taylor Wang flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-51-B in 1985. [17] Wang, however, had become a United States citizen in 1975. [17] Taylor Wang was not the first person born in China to go to orbit. William Anders was born in Hong Kong on 17 October 1933. [18] Anders would be a part of the Apollo 8 lunar orbital mission in 1968. [18]
This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies.
In space, no one can hear you scream -- but you may hear a knock. When he was alone in a spacecraft in 2003, astronaut Yang Liwei reportedly heard a "knock" despite being alone.
The date of the Chinese New Year accords with the patterns of the lunisolar calendar and hence is variable from year to year. The invariant between years is that the winter solstice, Dongzhi is required to be in the eleventh month of the year [ 39 ] This means that Chinese New Year will be on the second new moon after the previous winter ...
Leading the six-month mission was 43-year-old Ye Guangfu, who last went to Tiangong, or "Heavenly Palace" in Chinese, in October 2021 in China's second crewed mission to the station.
Airton (footballer, born 1999) (previous page) This page was last edited on 16 June 2024, at 07:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Astronauts from China’s Tiangong space station returned to Earth this week despite an apparent hole in the parachute of their spacecraft’s landing module.. On Tuesday, three astronauts Jing ...