{"id":91928,"date":"2026-11-09T00:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T16:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/pakistani-astronaut-set-to-become-first-foreigner-aboard-chinas-tiangong-station\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T00:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T16:25:38","slug":"pakistani-astronaut-set-to-become-first-foreigner-aboard-chinas-tiangong-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/pakistani-astronaut-set-to-become-first-foreigner-aboard-chinas-tiangong-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Astronaut Set to Become First Foreigner Aboard China&#8217;s Tiangong Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision was announced Saturday by Chinese state media. It represents the first time Beijing has opened its space station to a crew member from another country, a move that mirrors the international partnerships that have long defined the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The astronaut, a Pakistani national, will fly aboard Shenzhou 24. The flight will make the astronaut the first foreigner to board Tiangong. State media confirmed the selection in its November 7 report, without further crew details disclosed in the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>China opening its station to a foreign crew member is a diplomatic and soft-power milestone. The step signals Beijing&#8217;s intent to build a bloc of partner nations around its orbital outpost as the ISS nears retirement, and it reflects a broader shift toward international crews on Tiangong.<\/p>\n<p>Attention now turns to which nation Beijing invites aboard next, with each selection carrying its own geopolitical weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision was announced Saturday by Chinese state media. It represents the first time Beijing has opened its space station to a crew member from another country, a move that mirrors the international partnerships that have long defined the International Space Station. The astronaut, a Pakistani national, will fly aboard Shenzhou 24. The flight will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91929,"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-91928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91928"}],"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=91928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}