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There are a number of objects in the solar system that have been named after Chinese people or places. Many of these are craters on the terrestrial planets but asteroids and exoplanets have also received Chinese names.
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 ...
First Mongolian in space. Soyuz 39 (March 22, 1981) 3 Rakesh Sharma January 13, 1949 India: First Indian in space. Soyuz T-11/10 (April 3, 1984) 4 Taylor Wang June 16, 1940 United States ( Republic of China) First person of Chinese ancestry in space. Second Asian American in space, after Ellison Onizuka. STS-51-B (April 29, 1985) 5
China’s space agency has revealed the names of the spacecraft that it hopes will take Chinese astronauts to the moon by the end of the decade. China’s space agency has revealed the names of ...
Chinese names in space; Czech names in space; F. ... Turkish names in space; U. Uruguay names in space This page was last edited on 27 November 2024, at 07:52 ...
From the popular to the rare, we’ve rounded up a long list of Chinese baby names: 90 traditionally boy names, 90 traditionally girl names and 20 that are considered unisex, for a total of 200 ...
The list is based on Atlas Comparing Chinese and Western Star Maps and Catalogues by Yi Shitong (1981) and Star Charts in Ancient China by Chen Meidong (1996). In a few cases, meanings of the names are vague due to their antiquity. [6] In this article, the translation by Hong Kong Space Museum is used.
Wan Hu is a legendary Chinese official described in modern sources as possibly the first man to attempt to use a rocket to launch into outer space. [1] Possibly depicted as the "world's first astronaut" [2] and "the first martyr in man's struggle to achieve space flight", [3] NASA named the crater Wan-Hoo on the far side of the Moon after him.