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China and Pakistan have agreed to start a Pakistani astronaut to the Chinese space station Tiangong, the first foreign astronauts who visited the orbital outer post. . | Credit: cmse
For the first time, the Chinese space program will train a Pakistani astronaut that will also be the first foreign astronaut to visit the Chinese space station.
The Agreement, the “Cooperation Treaty for the Selection, the Training of Pakistani Astronauts and the participation in China’s Flight Mission Space, was signed on February 28 by Chinas -Space Engineering Office (CMSE) and the Pakistani Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Supalco).
“The signing of this agreement marks the first time that the Chinese government will select and train astronauts from abroad, and the Chinese space station will visit the first foreign astronauts,” wrote the CMSE In a statement (Translated with Google).
The signing ceremony took place in the office of the Prime Minister in Pakistan in the capital of the country, Islamabad. The agreement was signed by Lin Xiqiang, the deputy director of CMSE, and Mohammad Yousaf Khan, Superco Chairman.
The next step is the selection work, which, according to the statement, will take about a year. The Pakistani astronauts will then travel to China for training. After that, Pakistani and Chinese astronauts will jointly enter the Tiangong area to the Tiangong area and will carry out a number of short-lasting missions in the next few years, according to CMSE officials.
China Tiangong space station Was in operation Since 2022. The CMSE started the three modules, from which the space station is composed, and then built it in a low orbit. The space station revolves the earth between 217 and 280 miles (340 to 450 kilometers).
The first crew at the Tiangong Station was Shenzhou 12. They started a mission to the space station in 2021 when the core module was the only one in the orbit. In December last year, the Chinese astronaut Cai Xuzhe and the song Lingdong, part of the Shenzhou 19 mission, spent a record loss Nine hours on a space walk Outside the Tiangong area, according to CMSA.
