The Shenzhou 17 crew set a record of "the youngest crew" and was refreshed, the list of the Shenzhou 18 crew was officially confirmed, Ye Guangfu served as the commander, and the third batch of astronauts Li Cong and Li Guangsu were selected, all three of whom were "post-80s".
Shenzhou-18 will be launched on time at 20:59 tomorrow (April 25), and the three astronauts will carry out crew rotation, technical verification, scientific experiments and exploration, as well as the maintenance and operation of China's space station. Today is the ninth "China Space Day", 54 years ago today we only launched the first artificial satellite Dongfanghong 1, and now we have carried out manned spaceflight many times, which is of great significance.
The Shenzhou-18 mission is the 32nd mission (the 13th manned mission) of the mainland manned space project, and it is also the seventh manned mission of China's space station.
During the orbit of Shenzhou 18, it will carry out 6 missions and 2 to 3 out-of-cabin activities of the cargo airlock cabin, and the biggest attraction is that it will carry out the "space fish farming" test for the first time, because this is another innovation after "growing vegetables in space".
As a key part of the on-orbit aquatic ecology research project, both zebrafish and goldfish algae will be present in self-circulating ecosystems, and with 87% genetic similarity between zebrafish and humans, this will be a breakthrough for the continent to study vertebrates in space.
Ye Guangfu is familiar to everyone, a native of Chengdu, Sichuan, who has carried out the Shenzhou 13 mission. He is the youngest of the second batch of astronauts, affectionately called "junior brother" by Wang Yaping, and is currently a second-class astronaut in the astronaut brigade with the rank of colonel.
Currently, the longest Chinese astronaut in space is Chen Dong for 215 days. Shenzhou-17's Tang Hongbo is expected to surpass Chen Dong, but Ye Guangfu will be the next and will become China's first astronaut to achieve a total flight time of one year.
The two "newcomers" of the Shenzhou 18 crew, Li Cong and Li Guangsu, are the third batch of astronauts, and they all entered the astronaut team after completing the selection in September 2020.
It should be noted that the third batch of astronauts selected a total of 7 astronauts, 7 flight engineers, and 4 payload specialists.
Each crew mission is typically assigned as standard with an astronaut pilot or flight engineer, plus a payload specialist. Previously, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao of the Shenzhou 16 crew, and Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin of the Shenzhou 17 crew were all the third batch of astronauts.
This time, the resumes of Li Cong and Li Guangsu will also be officially announced. Let's hope that they may not be born as pilots, but they are "both civil and military" scientific researchers.
Li Cong
Li Guangsu.
Netizens began to look forward to the meeting moment of the Shenzhou 18 astronauts in Wentiange, and they don't know which students' mentors are going to "teach in space" again.
It is reported that the "Shenzhou 18" manned spacecraft will adopt a 6.5-hour plan for rapid rendezvous and docking mode, and dock with the radial port of the "Tianhe" module.
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