Chapter 1 described the current stage of Chinese piloted spaceflight: the building of a basic space station. Tiangong was the culmination of a 20-year program of manned spaceflight, though one which had its roots in a precursor program as far back as the 1970s. This chapter narrates the precursor missions before manned flight (Shenzhou 1–4), the first manned flight (Shenzhou 5), the week-long flight of two astronauts (Shenzhou 6), and the first Chinese spaceflight by a three-man crew with the space walk by Zhai Zhigang (Shenzhou 7). These missions made China definitively the third spacefaring nation in the world.


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    Title :

    Manned spaceflight


    Additional title:

    Springer Praxis Books (formerly: Springer-Praxis Series)


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2013-03-09


    Size :

    54 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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