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China Hopes To Make It Two-Up With Shenzhou-6
Beijing - Feb 10, 2004 The training for the astronauts of "Shenzhou-6" spacecraft will start in March 2004 the People's Daily reported Monday . The biggest difference from the "Shenzhou-5" space flight is that two astronauts will carry out a flight lasting several days. Unnamed experts were quoted by the newspaper as saying this was a further test for the life safeguard system of China's manned spacecraft. Professor Xiao Yelun with Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics said that "Shenzhou 5" orbited the earth for 14 times while "Shenzhou-6" is likely to, like "Shenzhou-2 and "Shenzhou-3", carry two astronauts and orbit 108 times, almost seven days. Since the oxygen, food and water needed for the flight of two astronauts in several days is several times more than the flight of "Shenzhou-5", there will be a severe test for the life safeguard system of the manned spacecraft. Meanwhile, as the flight of "Shenzhou-6 " was short, astronaut Yang Liwei could have been seated in the reentry module. However, the flight of "Shenzhou-6" will last several days so the astronauts will move to the orbit module and do some scientific observations and experiments after the spacecraft completes flight normally and enters the orbit, and return to the reentry module before the spacecrafts returns. Therefore it requires more on the astronauts actions. Sources say that the 14 astronauts will be grouped into 7 groups based on factors such as personality, work cooperation and mutual-complement. Then 3 groups will be selected as the flight team and finally a two-people of them will be selected as the astronauts for "Shenzhou-6" upon the flight. Yang Liwei, who successfully completed the "Shenzhou-5" is also one of the 14 candidates. Source: People's Daily CommunityEmail This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express The Chinese Space Program - News, Policy and Technology China News from SinoDaily.com
Taikonauts On Moon A Far Off Dream For China Yet
Beijing (XNA) Jan 05, 2006A one-year lunar fly-by mission may start in April 2007 in China, but a manned flight to the Earth's neighbour may be a long way away, a chief lunar exploration scientist said last night. |
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