Topic: [Discuss] Shenzhou 16 crew to space station
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51287 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 05-29-2023 05:27 PM
Please use this thread for comments and questions about Shenzhou 16, China's fifth crewed mission to its space station.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51287 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 05-29-2023 05:28 PM
CCTV video
China is to launch the Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship at 09:31 Tuesday Beijing Time (9:31 p.m. EDT Monday) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, sending three astronauts to its Tiangong Space Station.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51287 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 05-29-2023 08:56 PM
New record for the most people in space at the same time:
When the Shenzhou 16 taikonauts reached space, they helped set a new record for the most people in orbit at the same time. Including the six members of the Shenzhou 15 and 16 crews, the six Expedition 69 astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station and the four members of the Axiom Space Ax-2 crew, there were 17 people circling Earth, three more than the prior record of 14.
On May 25, 2023, there were 20 people in space at the same time, but not all were in orbit. That record included three Chinese taikonauts, 11 astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station and six people aboard a suborbital launch of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51287 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-30-2023 10:04 AM
CCTV video
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51287 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-30-2023 06:10 PM
CCTV video
China's Shenzhou-16 astronauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao return to Earth on October 31 (Beijing Time), having completed all their scheduled tasks on China's space station.
posted 05-29-2023 05:27 PM
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