{"id":123617,"date":"2021-06-09T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T00:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/3-astronauts-selected-for-upcoming-shenzhou-12-space-station-mission-poised-for-flight-outside-cabin-tasks-yang-liwei"},"modified":"2021-06-09T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T00:23:20","slug":"3-astronauts-selected-for-upcoming-shenzhou-12-space-station-mission-poised-for-flight-outside-cabin-tasks-yang-liwei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/3-astronauts-selected-for-upcoming-shenzhou-12-space-station-mission-poised-for-flight-outside-cabin-tasks-yang-liwei","title":{"rendered":"3 astronauts selected for upcoming Shenzhou-12 space station mission, poised for flight, outside cabin tasks: Yang Liwei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3-astronauts-selected-for-upcoming-shenzhou-12-space-station-mission-poised-for-flight-outside-cabin-tasks-yang-liwei.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The three astronauts who will take the Shenzhou-12 manned spacecraft to China\u2019s Tianhe space station core cabin in June are now under Level-2 quarantine, with all related work having entered a final sprint stage, Yang Liwei, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office and the country\u2019s first astronaut revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, who went into space in the Shenzhou-5 craft on October 15, 2003, made the remarks during an interview with state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) on Saturday, following the successful launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202105\/1224808.shtml\" target=\"_self\" appprop=\"1\" nid=\"1224808\">Tianzhou-2 cargo craft<\/a> earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yang, the three astronauts of the Shenzhou-12 mission, who were selected from China\u2019s first and second batch of astronauts, will stay in space for three months, during which they will conduct tasks including repair and maintenance, appliance switch and scientific operation of payloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three astronauts who will take the Shenzhou-12 manned spacecraft to China\u2019s Tianhe space station core cabin in June are now under Level-2 quarantine, with all related work having entered a final sprint stage, Yang Liwei, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office and the country\u2019s first astronaut revealed. Yang, who went into space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}