China Manned Space Program (CMS)

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

This astronaut broke the record for the longest EVA in history, lasting 9 hours and 6 minutes.

Longest Spacewalk

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut visited the Tiangong Space Station.

Station Visitor

Cai Xuzhe is a Chinese People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps taikonaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. He was selected to be an astronaut in 2010.

Shenzhou-19

China launched a crew of three to spend six months at the Tiangong Space Station.

Shenzhou is a Soyuz-derived spacecraft built and flown by China. Larger than its Russian counterpart, Shenzhou is made up of three parts. Like Soyuz, only the reentry module with the crew survives reentry and landing.

Shenzhou

Shenzhou 14

China launched its 3rd crewed mission to its Tiangong space station. The crew will spend six months overseeing a large expansion of Tiangong with the addition of two new science and habitation modules named Wentian and Mengtian. 

 Cai Xuzhe

China

Shenzhou 19 - EVA 3

Shenzhou 19 - EVA 4

Shenzhou 19 - EVA 2

Shenzhou 19 - EVA 1

Shenzhou 14 - EVA 2

This astronaut is the first woman from China to go to space.

First Woman from China

Shenzhou 9

Shenzhou 9 was a three-person Chinese spaceflight that became the first Chinese mission to rendezvous and dock to the Tiangong 1 Chinese space station. It marked the first time a Chinese woman flew a space mission. The 13-day flight including 6 days docked to Tiangong 1 and seven days of free flight.

Liu Yang

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)

Shenzhou-20

Shenzhou 11

Shenzhou 11 is longest and most-recent Chinese human spaceflight.  Lasting 33 days, its crew visited the Tiangong 2 space station and tested life support equipment and explored how to work for prolonged periods in space.

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