China Manned Space Program (CMS)

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

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

This astronaut has visited the Tiangong Space Station.

TSS Visitor

Shenzhou 16

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 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.

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.

Shenzhou 7

The first three-person human spaceflight by China saw the crew perform the first Chinese spacewalk. Over three days in space, the crew conducted experiments, deployed a small satellite, and communicated to the ground through China's new data relay satellite, Tianlian I.

Jing Haipeng

China

Shenzhou 16 - EVA 1

Shenzhou 13

The second crewed flight to the Chinese Tiangong space station. Commander Zhai Zhigang made his second flight to space while Operators officers Wang Yaping and Ye Guagfu made their second and first, respectively.

Zhai Zhigang

Shenzhou 12

The mission was China’s first crew launch since 2016 and lasted three months. At the Chinese Space Station, the three taikonauts activated systems, performed experiments, and prepared for the upcoming addition of two new science modules to the laboratory.

Liu Boming

Liu Wang

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

First Woman from China

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. 

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