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China’s ‘Divine Vessel’ marks return to manned space flights
- Monday | 14th June, 2021
Shenzhou-12, meaning “Divine Vessel”, will be the third of 11 missions needed to complete China’s space station by 2022. China’s space bloggers speculate they will be Nie Haisheng – who at 56 would be China’s oldest astronaut sent into space – Deng Qingming, 55, and Ye Guangfu, 40. While no women are scheduled for the Shenzhou-12 mission, they are expected to participate in every following mission, Yang told Global Times. Liu was China’s first woman in space in 2012, while Wang was the youngest, at 33, in 2013. China began building its space station in April with the launch of Tianhe, the first and largest of its three modules.
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