At 20:59 Beijing time, the Shenzhou 18 manned spacecraft set off with three astronauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu to carry out a six-month mission to the Chinese space station.
Everyone has been looking forward to the Shenzhou 18 manned mission for a long time, and today it was finally successfully launched, and everyone has already known the crew composition of Shenzhou 18, especially the commander Ye Guangfu, who led the two third batch of astronauts to carry out the mission at the same time.
Ye Guangfushi is a member of China's second batch of astronauts, who has carried out the Shenzhou 13 mission, which is also the last mission of the key technology verification stage of China's space station, followed by Zhai Zhigang and Wang Yaping for a six-month space flight, in just over two years, Ye Guangfu has grown rapidly and become the commander of the Shenzhou 18 mission, this time he will also be as a "senior", with two "newcomers" to carry out the space station mission!
Ye Guangfu was born in 1980, and he is the eldest brother of the post-80s generation, and he is relatively young to become a commander at this age! We call the Shenzhou 17 crew the "youngest in history" crew, also because Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie, and Jiang Xinlin are relatively young, but as soon as the Shenzhou 18 crew is announced, their age is even younger.
The Shenzhou 18 crew can be called the "post-80s crew", and the three astronauts were all born after the 80s!
There is also a more interesting place, after the Shenzhou 18 manned spacecraft has been docked for 6.5 hours with rapid results, it was successfully docked at the interface of the "Tianhe" core module, and six astronauts conducted a space rendezvous, and 5 of the six astronauts are post-80s, only Tang Hongbo was born in 1975, and the younger generation has gradually become the backbone!
Li Cong and Li Guangsu are both members of China's third batch of astronauts, because of the rapid development of China's manned spaceflight, the near-earth space station is relatively dense, and they have both carried out their first space mission in the shortest possible time, so the pressure during training is naturally very huge.
And Ye Guangfu as the commander, this is his second space mission, the last time was Shenzhou 13 he entered the Chinese space station as an astronaut 03, so this is also his return to Tiangong journey, the last time he stayed in the Chinese space station for 6 months, and this time the Shenzhou 18 mission is also a 6-month space flight!
This also means that when the Shenzhou-18 manned spacecraft returns to Earth in October, astronaut Ye Guangfu will become the astronaut with the longest space flight time in China's manned spaceflight, with a time of up to 12 months, and naturally he will also be the astronaut who has stayed on the Chinese space station for the longest time.
Shenzhou 18's six-month space flight will carry out very critical tasks, 2-3 spacewalks, and inspection of external equipment and facilities of the space station as appropriate.
Not only that, the six-month space mission of Shenzhou 18 will also carry out the first domestic first in-orbit aquatic ecology research project, simply put, it is space fish farming, and it can only be said that the near-earth space station missions of China's manned space flight will become more and more abundant in the future.
During the orbit of Shenzhou-18, it needs to welcome the arrival of the Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft and the Shenzhou-19 manned spacecraft, and at the same time see off the Shenzhou-17 manned spacecraft.
With the successful launch of the Shenzhou 18 manned spacecraft, this also means that the Shenzhou 17 mission is about to end successfully, and it will return to Earth as planned after completing the handover of the in-orbit mission, the specific time is April 30, and the Shenzhou 17 return capsule will return to the Dongfeng landing site with three astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin.
At the same time, the Shenzhou 19 manned spacecraft can continue to wait, and after completing the backup task, it will continue to "hide in the snow", waiting for six months to go straight to space with the other three astronauts, and the commander may be directly locked as astronaut Chen Dong, which is worth looking forward to!
China's manned space station flight has become the norm, the six-month residency cycle is rotated, according to the latest news from the China Manned Space Engineering Office, the manned moon landing before 2030 is also going on as planned, which is more worth looking forward to.
Of course, it may take a few years, and in the next few days, Shenzhou 17 will return to the earth, and the Chang'e-6 probe will also go to the far side of the moon to sample.
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