China's Space Program Thread II

j17wang

j17wang

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kriss said:
Now come to think about it. Is this endurance test corelated to the Pakistan astronaut joining? One crew member staying for two "tours" would mean now there's an round trip empty seat. Then they decide not to waste it by taking a foreign astronaut for a one week experience on the station.
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Correct, in order to get a pakistani (or ANY astronaut of that matter) to do a short stay you MUST do the endurance test. China will not waste an empty space on upflight or downflight.

Personally, this means we will very likely see the female arm of the endurance test done with another foreign astronaut (my bet is on Russia, Brazil, or Thailand).

Once tiangong expands an additional 3 modules there may be more flexibility for short term stays with more docking ports, but right now they will likely keep with the 180 day mission tempo to efficiently maintain continuous presence on tiangong.
 
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Shenzhou-23 set sail for China Space Station on 23:08 UTC+8, May 24, 2026 from Jiuquan Space Launch Center. Then it docked successfully at the radial port of the Tianhe Core module of the CSS on 02:45 UTC+8, May 25. The two team met each other on 05:13 UTC+8.

Congratutations!
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Michael90

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Ringsword said:
Congratulations to the SZ23 mission /crew-safe journey to and from space-also the HK lady astronaut is a mother of 3(!),police inspector and IT specialist ...and from Shunde(ShunTak) GuangDong -where my grandparents came from-delighted and proud of her and all SZ crews.
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Wow…didn’t know she had up to 3 children. Very rare to see that nowadays in where educated women with career don’t even want to think about kids(and 3 at that). This is a good image, hopefully more public figures like this will be shown more to encourage others to see it’s not a bad thing , instead of having public figures/authorities campaigning for people to have kids while they themselves don’t have any or barely one.
 
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kickars

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Michael90 said:
Wow…didn’t know she had up to 3 children. Very rare to see that nowadays in where educated women with career don’t even want to think about kids(and 3 at that). This is a good image, hopefully more public figures like this will be shown more to encourage others to see it’s not a bad thing , instead of having public figures/authorities campaigning for people to have kids while they themselves don’t have any or barely one.
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Two of her girls are twins, and the other one is a boy.
 
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