China’s Shenzhou 18 group have handed the keys to the Tiangong house station to its new occupants.The Shenzhou 19 undertaking introduced on a Lengthy March 2F rocket from Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China on Oct. 29 and arrived on the Tiangong house station 6.5 hours later. In a while thereafter, at 12:51 a.m. EDT (0451 GMT) on Oct. 30, the hatch between the Shenzhou 19 spacecraft and Tiangong was once opened, permitting the 3 Shenzhou 18 undertaking astronauts to greet the trio of recent arrivals aboard.The formal handover of the station took place on Friday (Nov. 1), with Shenzhou 18 commander Ye Guangfu — who not too long ago was China’s first astronaut to spend three hundred and sixty five days in house in general — passing a symbolic key to Shenzhou 19 commander Cai Xuzhe. Each crews then shook palms. Similar: China’s house station, Tiangong: A whole guideThe Shenzhou 19 group is China’s youngest to this point, with Cai, 48, and freshmen Tune Lingdong and Wang Haoze, either one of whom have been born in 1990. Wang is recently China’s most effective feminine spaceflight engineer.The Shenzhou 19 trio now start their very own six-month-long keep aboard Tiangong and get to paintings on a deliberate 86 medical tasks and experiments, in addition to extravehicular actions, or spacewalks. Breaking house information, the most recent updates on rocket launches, skywatching occasions and extra!One notable experiment will contain sending a brick constructed from lunar soil simulant to Tiangong for placement outdoor the distance station. Researchers need to find out about how bricks constructed from native moon fabrics hang up in excessive environments to assist plan a long term outpost at the floor of the moon. The brick is about to reach at Tiangong aboard the Tianzhou 8 shipment resupply undertaking later in November.In the meantime, Ye and Shenzhou 18 crewmates Li Cong and Li Guangsu will get ready to go back house. They’re anticipated to the touch down within the Dongfeng touchdown space close to Jiuquan spaceport on Nov. 3.
