{"id":3010,"date":"2025-12-12T13:43:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/shenzhou-21-astronauts-complete-first-series-of-extravehicular-activities\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:43:33","slug":"shenzhou-21-astronauts-complete-first-series-of-extravehicular-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/shenzhou-21-astronauts-complete-first-series-of-extravehicular-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhou-21 astronauts complete first series of extravehicular activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  > The Shenzhou-21 crew aboard China&#8217;s orbiting space station completed their mission&#8217;s first series of extravehicular activities on Tuesday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).<\/p>\n<p  >The astronaut trio &#8212; Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang &#8212; worked for approximately eight hours and completed their tasks at 6:45 p.m. (Beijing Time), assisted by the space station&#8217;s robotic arm and a team on Earth. Wu Fei is the youngest Chinese astronaut to carry out an extravehicular mission to date.<\/p>\n<p  >Zhang Lu and Wu Fei, tasked with conducting spacewalk operations, completed the inspection and photography of the Shenzhou-20 return capsule&#8217;s viewport window, the installation of a debris protection device for the space station, and the replacement of the multilayer cover on the thermal control adapter, according to the CMSA.<\/p>\n<p  >During the Shenzhou-21 crewed mission, planned extravehicular activities involving crew and applied payloads will also be conducted, as will scientific experiments and technical tests.<\/p>\n<p  >Depending on the situation determined, the crew may also undertake protective operations on the damaged window of the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft, according to the CMSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shenzhou-21 crew aboard China&#8217;s orbiting space station completed their mission&#8217;s first series of extravehicular activities on Tuesday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The astronaut trio &#8212; Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang &#8212; worked for approximately eight hours and completed their tasks at 6:45 p.m. (Beijing Time), assisted by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}