Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
The three spaceflyers of the Shenzhou 17 mission reached China's Tiangong space station early Thursday morning , just 6.5 hours or so after, who greeted the newcomers with hugs as they came through the station's hatch. The six spaceflyers then lined up to relay a message to Mission Control and the rest of us back on
"Build a dream at the Tiangong space station and continue to work hard," they said in unison ."China's space station is always worth looking forward to." The astronauts of China's Shenzhou 16 and Shenzhou 17 missions celebrate the latter crew's arrival on the Tiangong space station on Oct. 26, 2023. The Shenzhou 17 crew consists of mission commander Tang Hongbo, 48, and former fighter pilots Tang Shengjie, 34, and Jiang Xinlin, 35.
"Previous inspection revealed that the space station's solar panels had also been hit several times by tiny objects in space, suffering minor damage, of course which was taken into account during our design," Lin added.mission, which reached Tiangong in late May. The Shenzhou 16 astronauts — Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao — are scheduled to return to Earth on Oct. 31., is a T-shaped structure consisting of three modules.
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