Posted on 03/01/2016 7:53:06 AM PST by BenLurkin
More details about China’s human spaceflight missions are filtering through after the country announced its launch Tiangong-2 and Shenzhou-11 launch schedule for 2016.
On Sunday it was announced that the Tiangong-2 space lab will launch in the third quarter of 2016, and be visited by the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft in Q4.
Shenzhou-11 will carry two Chinese astronauts, popularly referred to as taikounauts derived from the Chinese ‘taikongren’ (太空人).
It has now been stated that two taikonauts will stay in space for 30 days. While this pales into comparison with Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly’s Year in Space, it will be doubling China's previous record of the longest human spaceflight mission, which will be instructive for the Chinese space program's future space station ambitions.
There will, however, be no female astronauts involved in the Shenzhou-11 mission, despite the fact that China’s last two crewed missions, Shenzhou-9 and -10, included women.
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The two human spaceflight missions to China's first space lab, Tiangong-1, launched in 2011, had three crew members, but this time sending just two taikonauts helps achieve new objectives.
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Who is going to cook dinner?
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taikounauts
I order Chicken LoMein with Fried Rice and Egg Roll for taikounaut.
Youtube has a Chinese spacewalk video ,which is fake , it was filmed under water
On Bill and Hillary’s Clinton’s sale of US (classified!) booster engines and stage separation technology!
Vince Foster wasn’t empty handed on those trips he took to Switzerland.
Who cares? So sick of this pedantic "women can plug into the same hole as men" crap.
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