{"id":4654,"date":"2013-03-01T12:55:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-to-launch-new-manned-spacecraft\/"},"modified":"2013-03-01T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:55:45","slug":"china-to-launch-new-manned-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-to-launch-new-manned-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"China to launch new manned spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;China&#8217;s new spacecraft will be launched sometime between June and August, a spokesperson for the office of the country&#8217;s space manned program said in a statement released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Three Chinese astronauts will board the Shenzhou-10, which is expected to dock with the orbiting lab module Tiangong-1, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Tiangong-1 was sent into space in September 2011. It later docked with the Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft in November 2011, and with the Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft in June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>After years of testing, the new mission will mark the first formal application of the manned space transportation system, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The objectives of the new mission include further assessing the performance of the docking system, the combination&#8217;s capabilities in supporting life and work, and the abilities of astronauts on the job, according to plans.<\/p>\n<p>Research on astronauts&#8217; abilities to adapt to the environment in the space module will also be conducted, in addition to tests on repairing orbiting spacecraft and other key technologies necessary for developing a space station.<\/p>\n<p>China plans to build its own space station around 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;China&#8217;s new spacecraft will be launched sometime between June and August, a spokesperson for the office of the country&#8217;s space manned program said in a statement released Thursday. Three Chinese astronauts will board the Shenzhou-10, which is expected to dock with the orbiting lab module Tiangong-1, according to the statement. The Tiangong-1 was sent into [&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-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654"}],"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=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}