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It’s now a month that three Chinese nationals have spent in space and they shall stay there for more two months, as per the China’s space mission launched on June 17.
Shenzhou-12 spacecraft carried the three Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts, to China’s space station as one of the most important missions for the manned space program. The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) has also published a timeline of Shenzhou-12’s progress so far.
Three Chinese men Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo, are due to spend three months in space as part of the China’s longest crewed space mission till now. “The most challenging task is not those training sessions. Instead, it’s maintaining the passion of an explorer at heart,” the CMSEO said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping made a video call to the space station and extended his greetings to the taikonauts. Interestingly the three taikonauts sent birthday wishes to the Communist Party of China (CPC) from space, ahead of the CPC’s centenary.
“Each success of the space program relates to the CPC’s decisions, care and leadership,” the CMSEO said.
Two of the three taikonauts performed a seven-hour-long session outside the space station. A robot arm helped Liu Boming to and from one place to another on the outside of the space station. CMSEO said China’s space program will carry on with their endeavor in space.
These men will spend three months aboard the Tianhe module some 380km (236 miles) above the earth. It is said to be the China’s longest crewed space mission till now and the first in nearly five years.
In the past six months, the country has returned rock and soil samples to Earth from the surface of the Moon, and landed a six-wheeled robot on Mars – both highly complex and challenging endeavours.
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The primary objective for Commander Nie Haishen and his team on the Shenzhou-12 mission is to bring the 22.5-tonne Tianhe module into service.
It is the first and core component in what will eventually be a near 70-tonne orbiting outpost, comprising living quarters, science labs and even a Hubble-class telescope to view the cosmos.
