Chinese veteran again flies between stars

Undoubtedly, it is the most famous and by far the largest of all stations sent to space by humanity, the International Space Station (ISS), but is not the only one. There is currently another in space. There, after 2021, it was gradually compiled by China, which does not participate in the ISS project. Its tiangong, which means the Heavenly Palace, reaches less than a quarter of ISS, and its capacity under pressure where taiconauts can stay – which is a Chinese version of astronauts or cosmonauts – is about a third of the international station.

On Wednesday, the Chinese Space Agency introduced a new team that will fly to the Heavenly Palace on Thursday. At the helm of three-member teams will be their most experienced space traveler, a 46-year-old Colonel of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force Chen dong. So far, Colonel Chen spent 214 days in space and was the first Taikonaut in 2022 to have been in space for more than 200 days. He was first at the first Chinese station in 2016, and in 2022 he was the commander of the mission at the current station. During his half -year stay in space, he also learned three space walks, that is, he went out of closed spaces in a station where he was just under 16 hours together.

Although he is an experienced space husband, he said before firing that, because space summer is a very special experience, he is still very upset. His companion, a 40-year-old military pilot Chen zhongrui and a 35-year-old space technology engineer Wang jiethey are certainly even more, as this will be their first path into space.

Because Colonel Chen was born at a time before Mother Party in 1979 commanded that the family could only have one child, he had an older brother. It is interesting to note that he and his wife themselves avoided the only one, since they were born in 2005, even before they eliminated the policy of one child in 2015, they were born.