{"id":5341,"date":"2012-02-21T16:41:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T08:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/launch-of-chinas-manned-spacecraft-shenzhou-9-scheduled\/"},"modified":"2012-02-21T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T08:41:47","slug":"launch-of-chinas-manned-spacecraft-shenzhou-9-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/launch-of-chinas-manned-spacecraft-shenzhou-9-scheduled\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of China&#8217;s Manned Spacecraft Shenzhou-9 Scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; China will launch its manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft between June and August this year, as well as conduct a space rendezvous and docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module, a spokesman for China&#8217;s manned space program said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The space docking mission will be manually conducted by astronauts, giving China another chance to test its docking technology, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The Shenzhou-9&#8217;s three crew members will board the Tiangong-1 after the docking is completed, living there and conducting scientific experiments.<\/p>\n<p>An evaluation of the program was carried out following a previous rendezvous by the Tiangong-1 and the unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, showing that all relevant systems are in good condition and are ready for a manned docking, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The orbiting Tiangong-1 is ready to accommodate the astronauts, and the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and its carrier rocket, the Long-March II-F, are undergoing final checks, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tiangong-1 went into space on Sept. 29, 2011, docking with the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft to complete China&#8217;s first space docking mission just over a month later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; China will launch its manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft between June and August this year, as well as conduct a space rendezvous and docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module, a spokesman for China&#8217;s manned space program said Friday. The space docking mission will be manually conducted by astronauts, giving [&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-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341"}],"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=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}