Views of Egypt & The Red Sea | China Space Station

Views of Egypt & The Red Sea | China Space Station

China Manned Space Agency on Tuesday, February 20, 2024, released a bird's eye view of Egypt in northeast Africa and the Red Sea taken by astronaut Tang Shengjie who is currently on-board China's space station. Tang is the country's youngest astronaut to work at the space station. He is serving as a member of the Shenzhou-17 crew that launched to space on October 26, 2023.

Tang and his two colleagues, Tang Hongbo and Jiang Xinlin, will stay at the space station for about six months, as they continue to research human adaptation to the space environment. So far, they have successfully completed many tasks, including spacewalks, moving equipment out of the space station for space experiments, managing equipment and facilities, and maintaining experiment facilities for long term science research.

Shenzhou-17 is the sixth crew of three astronauts on a mission to the China Space Station. Shenzhou-17 is also the twelfth crewed and seventeenth flight overall of China's Shenzhou spaceflight program.

Shenzhou-17 Crew:

Hongbo Tang (Commander)

Shengjie Tang (Mission Specialist)

Xinlin Jiang (Mission Specialist)

Video Credit: China Manned Space Agency (CMSA)/CCTV

Duration: 1 minute, 19 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 20, 2024

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