: Tiangong: Chinese astronauts are working on the country’s first space station #IndiaNEWS Three astronauts on China’s new space station have just performed the country’s first spacewalk and are

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Tiangong: Chinese astronauts are working on the country’s first space station #IndiaNEWS
Three astronauts on China’s new space station have just performed the country’s first spacewalk and are busy configuring the module for future crews. Named Tiangong (“heavenly palace�), the station is the Chinese National Space Agency’s signature project to develop China’s ambitions for having humans in orbit around Earth for a long amount of time.In planning since the late 1990s, the Tiangong station’s core module, Tianhe (“heavenly river� and the old Chinese name for the Milky Way), launched on April 29. But it is not yet complete. Yang Liwei, chief designer of China’s human spaceflight programme, has said the astronauts “have a lot of tasks to do after entering the core module. For screws alone, they have over 1,000 to remove�.Much like the former Russian space station Mir and the International Space Station, the entire project is too large to be put into orbit in one launch. Tianhe, weighing 22.5 tonnes, was lofted to an orbit of 400km above Earth on a Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang launch site on the island of Hainan, China. The Long March 5B is a heavy lift rocket with a thrust in between the SpaceX rockets Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.The core module contains everything needed to keep people alive in space. This includes life support...Read more

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