Beijing – Beijing (AP) –
China announced on Wednesday the members of a team of three people who will launch their space station as part of their growing space exploration.
The astronauts of the Shenzhou 20 mission are Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, Lin Xiqiang, deputy general director of the Chinese managed space agency. They will replace three astronauts currently at the Chinese Space Station. Like those before them, they will remain there for approximately six months.
The three will be launched for space on Thursday night in China, from Jiuquan, on the edge of Gobi’s desert in northwestern China.
The crew of three people was sent in October last year and has been in space for 175 days, said Lin.
Chen Dong, who previously served in the Missions of Shenzhou 11 and Shenzhou 14, is the leader of the group, while his two crew teammates will make their first trips to space. Chen Zhongrui was a pilot of the Air Force and Wang Jie, an engineer from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
“I feel an incomparable pride and achievement to return to space for my country,” Chen Dong told journalists on Wednesday. “Each trip to space has no parallel, I hope to gain more experience and more advances through this flight.”
Chen Dong directed the construction of the space station during the Shenzhou mission 14.
As long as they are in space, astronauts will carry out experiments in space medicine and space technology; Make extravehicular trips; and make improvements at the space station.
China built its own space station after it was excluded from the International Space Station Due to the United States National Security concerns about the control of the country’s space program for the popular liberation army, the military branch of the ruling communist party.
China’s space program has grown rapidly in recent years. The space agency has an explorer landed on Mars and a rover on the other side of the moon. Points put a person on the moon before 2030.
Astronauts who return terrify are expected on April 29.
