China Manned Space Agency
Coverage of China Manned Space Agency in the Nexus archive.
- China merges lunar programmes as race to moon with US heats up after latest SpaceX launch
China has merged its crewed and uncrewed lunar landing programs into a single mission to enhance efficiency and leverage existing technical expertise, following a recent SpaceX Starship launch that intensified the US-China moon race.
- Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying lifts off into space on Shenzhou-23 mission
Hong Kong’s first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, successfully launched into space on China’s Shenzhou-23 mission via a Long March-2F rocket from Jiuquan. The China Manned Space Agency reported the launch as successful.
- Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying picked for space station mission
Hong Kong’s first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, will join the Shenzhou-23 mission to the Tiangong space station as a payload specialist. She is a police chief inspector and tech expert with a doctorate in computer science and will become the fourth female astronaut in the Chinese space station.