Shenzhou
Shenzhou is a family of crewed spacecraft developed by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) as part of the Chinese human spaceflight program. Initiated in the 1990s, the program aims to provide autonomous access to space and capabilities for long-duration missions. Since its first crewed mission in 2003, Shenzhou has demonstrated China’s growing human spaceflight capabilities, including the country’s first spacewalk in 2008.
The spacecraft are launched on Long March 2F rockets from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the
Since 2012, Shenzhou has supported docking flights with orbital laboratories Tiangong 1 and, later, the Tianhe
The name Shenzhou, often translated as Divine Land or Divine Vessel, is a poetic term for China
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