China Manned Space Program (CMS)

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut visited the Tiangong Space Station.

Station Visitor

Tang Hongbo is a pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force. He was selected as a taikonaut in 2010 and was a backup crewmember for the Shenzhou 11 mission. He will serve as Pilot on Shenzhou 12, his first spaceflight.

Shenzhou 17

Shenzhou is a Soyuz-derived spacecraft built and flown by China. Larger than its Russian counterpart, Shenzhou is made up of three parts. Like Soyuz, only the reentry module with the crew survives reentry and landing.

Shenzhou

Shenzhou 12

The mission was China’s first crew launch since 2016 and lasted three months. At the Chinese Space Station, the three taikonauts activated systems, performed experiments, and prepared for the upcoming addition of two new science modules to the laboratory.

Tang Hongbo

China

Shenzhou 16 - EVA 6

Shenzhou 12 - EVA 1

Shenzhou 17 - EVA 1

Shenzhou 6

Shenzhou 6 was the first multi-day and multi-person human spaceflight by China. The two-person crew performed a full checkout of the Shenzhou Orbital and Descent Modules, performed science experiments, and were the first Chinese taikonauts to change out of their pressure suits after launch.

Shenzhou 10

Lasting 14 days, this was China's second and last docking to the Tiangong 1 space station. The crew performed medical experiment and technology demonstration tests. The crew also tested evacuation and redocking procedures for future Chinese space stations.

Nie Haisheng

Shenzhou 7

The first three-person human spaceflight by China saw the crew perform the first Chinese spacewalk. Over three days in space, the crew conducted experiments, deployed a small satellite, and communicated to the ground through China's new data relay satellite, Tianlian I.

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