China sets new annual record with launch of manned Shenzhou-15 to space station
China today successfully used its Long March 2F rocket to launch three astronauts on a six month mission to its Tiangong-3 space station, setting a new annual national record for launches in a single year.
China’s previous high of 52 successfully launches was achieved last year. This launch, with about five weeks left in the year, is its 53rd in 2022.
This mission will also be the first on Tiangong-3 where there will be an overlap of two crews, with six people occupying the station for a short while.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
54 SpaceX
53 China
20 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 78 to 53 in the national rankings, while trailing the rest of the world combined 83 to 78.
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China today successfully used its Long March 2F rocket to launch three astronauts on a six month mission to its Tiangong-3 space station, setting a new annual national record for launches in a single year.
China’s previous high of 52 successfully launches was achieved last year. This launch, with about five weeks left in the year, is its 53rd in 2022.
This mission will also be the first on Tiangong-3 where there will be an overlap of two crews, with six people occupying the station for a short while.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
54 SpaceX
53 China
20 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 78 to 53 in the national rankings, while trailing the rest of the world combined 83 to 78.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I watched this with amusement.
The announcers commented that this launched from China’s East Coast.
As opposed to… The West coast??
Sippin_bourbon: The launch site was in the Gobi Desert. Not near any coast that I am aware of.
Sipping_Bourbon, yes all the Shenzhou launches are from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, out in the Gobi Desert. You are probably thinking of the Tiangong module launches with the CZ-5B out at Wenchang, on the coast of Hainan.
I somehow think that China is just launching this much in order to keep up with SpaceX.
Unless they are weaponizing space.