Alexander Lewis
Apr 26, 2024
Chinese spaceflight Shenzhou 17 was launched on October 26, 2023 to the Tiangong Space Station to conduct space application tests for biomedical engineering doctoral candidates in the fields of biology, physics, and chemistry.
It marks China's 12th crewed mission since Yang Liwei's solo spaceflight in October 2003, the first Chinese national in space. The crew was the youngest ever to depart for the orbiting Tiangong space station as part of China’s programme to send its “taikonauts” to lunar space.
This is China's 12th crewed mission since Yang Liwei's solo space flight in October 2003, the first Chinese citizen in space. The crew was the youngest ever to launch its "Taikonauts" to the orbiting Tiangong space station as part of China's programme to send its "Taikonauts" into lunar space.
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China's Shenzhou 17 crew is scheduled to return to Earth this month. The China Manned Space Agency has announced in a conference that the three-member crew will depart from the low Earth orbit and will return to the Dongfeng Landing Site in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on April 30.
Earlier, the Tianhe core module's solar panel cable was hit by space debris, causing a partial loss of power supply. In response, the Shenzhou-17 crew performed two non-vehicular activities, completing China's first non-vehicular repair mission.
The Shenzhou-17 crew has conducted 84 in-orbit experiments that have produced more than 200 samples in a variety of fields such as science and biotechnology, space medicine, and space materials science. The Samples are to be brought back to Earth with the crew.
