{"id":3307,"date":"2023-10-26T17:24:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-unveils-shenzhou-17-crew-for-space-station-mission\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T17:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:24:49","slug":"china-unveils-shenzhou-17-crew-for-space-station-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-unveils-shenzhou-17-crew-for-space-station-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"China unveils Shenzhou-17 crew for space station mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie, and Jiang Xinlin will carry out the Shenzhou-17 manned spaceflight mission, and Tang Hongbo will be the commander, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced at a press conference on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p> It is the first time that the spaceflight team consists of one veteran from China&#8217;s second batch of astronauts and two space rookies from the third batch of astronauts. <\/p>\n<p> The Shenzhou-17 crewed spaceship will be launched at 11:14 a.m. Thursday (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, said Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the CMSA. <\/p>\n<p> After joining the second batch of Chinese astronauts in 2010, Tang Hongbo flied to space for the first time in the three-month Shenzhou-12 mission in June 2021, the first crewed mission for China&#8217;s space station construction. He received a third-class medal and the honorary title &#8220;heroic astronaut&#8221; in November 2021. <\/p>\n<p> As the commander of the Shenzhou-17 mission, Tang Hongbo will be the first astronaut to return to China&#8217;s space station. He also set a new record for the shortest interval between two spaceflight missions by Chinese astronauts. <\/p>\n<p> Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin are new comers to space. They joined China&#8217;s third batch of astronauts in September 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie, and Jiang Xinlin will carry out the Shenzhou-17 manned spaceflight mission, and Tang Hongbo will be the commander, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced at a press conference on Wednesday. It is the first time that the spaceflight team consists of one veteran from China&#8217;s second batch of [&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-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307"}],"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=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}