China's Space Program News Thread

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JSLC site visit by helicopter. you can see the "Space City". It is a real city where thousands of families live permanently, thus there are areas of residences, a supermarket, a shopping center, nursery, primary and secondary school and a sports complex, a cinema, a clinic ... etc., there are even farms. The launch area is located 8km from the city space, and the whole is several hundred kilometers from the nearest town.


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Best wishes to the Taikonauts!

 

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Forerunner Dreadnaught at 3:07!

(For you Halo fans.)

 

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On June 16 the different antennas of CCTV in the USA, France, Malaysia, Japan, Australia ... etc will connect to CCTV in China to allow foreigneir to ask questions trought internet directly with experts invited on the board. A TV studio was specially designed.

 

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YW-6 tracking ship

 

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SZ-9 mission's crew training

 

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live coverage of Shenzhou 9's launch!!!

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The engineers entered into SZ-9 to examine it. Flight engineers are trying to adjust the flight parameters with new data collected like the wind speed at high altitude. Currently only the apogee is different compared to calculations made 15 days ago.

 

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You know a century ago, it was the British at the height of their empire who wrote all the classic science fiction literature; here we are a century later, never in their wildest dreams would it occur to them that the people doing the things they wrote about were going to be Americans or Russians and not British.

Many of the American scientists that paved the way or participated in launches had their ancestoral heritage from. Europe and the UK. You can throw in a few Chinease and a New Zealander in the mix as well.

 

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China has taken "full measures" to protect the health of the country's three astronauts, including one spacewoman, who are to participate in a manual space docking mission, a spokeswoman for China's manned space program said Friday.

"The measures are designed to combat the negative influence of the gravity-free environment of space and ensure the astronauts' health, as the mission will last for 13 days," said the spokeswoman, Wu Ping, at a televised press conference.

More medical examinations and protection measures will be conducted in space aboard the spacecraft Shenzhou-9, compared with the country's previous manned missions, according to Wu. They will include an on-orbit examination of the astronauts' hearts, lungs and biochemistry conditions, as well as providing more medicine and medical security measures and carrying out hygienic processing in the cabin, to ensure a timely check on the astronauts' health and effective prevention against space motion sickness.

Equipment like a bicycle ergometer, chest developer and neuromuscular electrical stimulation have been prepared on board to protect the astronauts against weightlessness and maintain their cardiac and muscular functions, the spokeswoman said.

Meanwhile, the female astronaut will receive particular protections in medical examinations and exercises, and both space program design and onboard care arrangements have taken into full consideration of the female physical condition, Wu added.

But Wu also noted that despite all these measures, the astronauts are likely to suffer orthostatic intolerance after their long weightless flight, and they will still need time to readapt to Earth's gravity...

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The departure ceremony of the astronauts begin.

 

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Sorry I'm behind in all this. Have any of the taikonaunts been into space, or is this their first time?