Farewell Ceremony for China's Shenzhou-14 Crew

Farewell Ceremony for China's Shenzhou-14 Crew

Chinese Shenzhou-14 astronauts (from left to right) Cai Xuzhe, Chen Dong, and Liu Yang

Chinese Shenzhou-14 astronauts: Foreground: Commander Chen Dong and in the background Liu Yang & Cai Xuzhe

Chinese Shenzhou-14 astronauts (from left to right) Cai Xuzhe, Chen Dong, and Liu Yang

Astronaut motorcade to Long March-2F Y14 rocket launch pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia

Chinese Shenzhou-14 astronauts (from left to right) Liu Yang, Commander Chen Dong (middle), and Cai Xuzhe as they enter the Shenzhou-14 crew spacecraft atop the Long March-2F Y14 rocket

China's first woman in space returns for 2nd mission to Tiangong Space Station. 

China successfully launched its Shenzhou-14 crewed spacecraft to the Tiangong Space Station on Sunday, June 5, 2022, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia on a Long March-2F Y14 rocket.

Chinese astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang, and Cai Xuzhe will be on a six-month long duration mission. Liu became the first Chinese woman in space during the Shenzhou-9 Mission in 2012. Shenzhou-14 represents the second space mission for Chen Dong and Liu Yang. Cai Xuzhe is on his first. 

Following the launch of Shenzhou-14, the lab module Wentian is scheduled to arrive in July 2022, the lab module Mengtian in October, and then the Tianzhou-5 cargo craft and the Shenzhou-15 crew mission spacecraft later this year. The Wentian and Mengtian lab modules will provide larger platforms for scientific experiments in microgravity. Nearly 100 experiments are planned during the construction phase of China's space station. After operations are normalized, larger-scale scientific research will be conducted. This is expected to effectively promote breakthroughs in major frontier scientific fields, such as dark matter and dark energy, galaxy formation and evolution, laws about the nature of matter, as well as in sustainable development on Earth.

Image Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)/Xinhua

Release Date: June 4, 2022

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