China’s first “post-90s” astronauts to fulfill their space dreams #SpaceChina https://t.co/n2f3B94FGI pic.twitter.com/fmaIcB4eqR
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) October 29, 2024
Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze will carry out the Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceflight mission, and Cai will be the commander, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced at a press conference on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/ardsKLqZVz
— China Perspective (@China_Fact) October 29, 2024
China launched the Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship on Wednesday, sending three astronauts — including the country’s first female space engineer — to its orbiting space station for a six-month mission. #GLOBALink pic.twitter.com/zpKnGVTKij
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) October 29, 2024
China will have a city on the Moon while you’re stuck paying to feed infinity niggers.
This is the reality that has been created.
China sent three astronauts on Wednesday to its permanently inhabited space station, where they will conduct dozens of scientific experiments, some related to the construction of human habitats.
The spacecraft Shenzhou-19 and its three crew lifted off atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China at 4:27 a.m. (2027 GMT), according to state media.
“During the Shenzhou-19 flight … 86 space sci-tech experiments will be carried out in the fields of space life sciences, microgravity physics, materials, medicine, new technologies,” Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), said in a press conference on Tuesday.
Astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze.
One of these experiments is expected to involve exposing bricks made from simulated lunar soil to conditions in space.
Should the tests prove successful, the bricks could be a key material used in the construction of a permanent lunar research station, which China hopes to complete by 2035, as it would in theory be more convenient than transporting building materials from Earth.
The bricks will be sent in a separate uncrewed cargo spaceflight to the Shenzhou-19 crew next month.
The Shenzhou crewed spaceflights have been a regular fixture of China’s space program for the past two decades and have increased in frequency in recent years as China built and began operating its “Tiangong” space station, officially completed in November 2022.
The fast development of China’s manned and unmanned space program has alarmed the United States, which has encountered issues with its own crewed spaceflights.
Two NASA astronauts brought to the International Space Station by Boeing’s Starliner capsule in June have been stranded there since due to unforeseen issues with the spacecraft’s propulsion system. They are expected to return in February 2025 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
This is the story of the world.
China is dominating in all areas while the US fades away.
Chinese researchers develop lunar-soil bricks for future lunar base construction. pic.twitter.com/oJOAZGlIp0
— Consulat général de Chine à Montréal (@ChinaCGMTL) October 29, 2024
The only thing the US has left is its military which has not really been tested in any meaningful way in a long time.