breaking the human record again! 19 people in orbit at the same time, from china, the united states and russia
2024-09-13
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according to xinhua news agency, the russian state space corporation announced on its official website on the 11th that the russian soyuz ms-26 manned spacecraft docked with the international space station that night. so far, a total of 19 people are in low-earth orbit at the same time, surpassing the record of 17 people in low-earth orbit at the same time set in may 2023, once again breaking the human history record.
▲astronauts boarded the soyuz ms-26 spacecraft to the international space station. photo courtesy of visual china
according to statistics, these 19 people are from china, the united states and russia. among them, the russian soyuz ms-26 manned spacecraft carries russian astronauts alexi ovchinin and ivan wagner, as well as american astronaut donald pettit. during their stay at the international space station, they plan to conduct 42 scientific experiments and are scheduled to return to earth on april 1, 2025.
nasa astronauts matthew dominic, michael barratt, janet epps and tracy caldwell dyson, as well as russian cosmonauts nikolay chub, oleg kononenko and alexander grebyonkin, are still on the international space station as part of expedition 71. according to nasa, the group began their mission in april this year and is expected to return this month.
in addition, american astronauts butch wilmore and sunny williams, who were forced to stay on the international space station after taking the boeing starliner, are still at the international space station. it is reported that they plan to return on spacex's dragon spacecraft next year.
at the same time, four non-professional astronauts - american billionaire jared isaacman, spacex engineer sarah gillis, scott potik and anna menon recently boarded spacex's dragon spacecraft to carry out the first commercial spacewalk by humans.
according to xinhua news agency, chinese astronauts ye guangfu, li cong and li guangsu began to carry out the shenzhou 18 manned flight mission in april this year, and successfully entered the chinese "tiangong" space station at 5:04 on april 26, and joined the shenzhou 17 astronaut crew on orbit. on april 30, the shenzhou 17 astronaut crew returned to earth safely. it is reported that since the shenzhou 18 spacecraft was launched into orbit on april 25, ye guangfu, li cong and li guangsu have been in orbit for more than four months. the china manned space engineering office released the latest video of the chinese space station on september 8. at present, the three astronauts are in good physical and mental condition, and various experiments and tests are being carried out in an orderly manner.
▲photo from cctv news
red star news reporter li jinrui compiled xinhua news agency (reporters guo zhongzheng and liu kai)
editor zhang xun responsible editor guan li
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