{"id":48344,"date":"2026-05-24T23:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48344"},"modified":"2026-05-24T23:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:23:20","slug":"china-launches-three-crew-space-flight-as-part-of-moon-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/china-launches-three-crew-space-flight-as-part-of-moon-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches three-crew space flight as part of Moon ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>China launched its Shenzhou-23 mission on Sunday, which will see a Chinese astronaut spend a full year in orbit for the first time, a crucial step in Beijing&#8217;s ambition to send humans to the Moon by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The Long March 2-F rocket blasted off in a cloud of flames and smoke on time at 11:08 pm (1508 GMT) from the Jiuquan launch centre in China&#8217;s northwestern Gobi Desert, video from state broadcaster CCTV showed.<\/p>\n<p>The mission marks the first spaceflight ever undertaken by an astronaut from Hong Kong: 43-year-old Li Jiaying (Lai Ka-ying in Cantonese), who previously worked for the Hong Kong police.<\/p>\n<p>Other crew members include 39-year-old space engineer Zhu Yangzhu and 39-year-old Zhang Zhiyuan, a former air force pilot, who is travelling into space for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The crew is set to carry out numerous scientific projects in life sciences, materials science, fluid physics and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>A key experiment of Shenzhou-23 will be the full-year stay in orbit by one of the crew in order to study the effects of a long stay in microgravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China launched its Shenzhou-23 mission on Sunday, which will see a Chinese astronaut spend a full year in orbit for the first time, a crucial step in Beijing&#8217;s ambition to send humans to the Moon by 2030. The Long March 2-F rocket blasted off in a cloud of flames and smoke on time at 11:08 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48346,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48344\/revisions\/48346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}