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Space in October is as lively as ever.
Among them, the most noteworthy is that in late October, China's aerospace will launch the "Shenzhou-19" manned spacecraft to carry out a new round of space missions to China's space station.
There was also action on the United States side, but United States was not happy, because the United States rocket exploded again.
1. China will launch Shenzhou-19
Soon China's space station will usher in its fifth space rendezvous.
The Shenzhou-18 astronauts, who were stationed on China's space station in April this year, have completed their space mission and will return at the end of the month.
The astronauts of the Shenzhou-19 crew, who have taken over, have completed their training projects and are adjusting their status, waiting to be stationed at the Chinese space station at the end of the month to carry out their own space missions.
At this time, everyone is most concerned about who the astronauts of the Shenzhou 19 crew are, for example, Yang Liwei, who everyone cares about, as China's first astronaut to enter space, does Yang Liwei have the opportunity to go to the Chinese space station to have a look?
Among the first batch of astronauts and the second batch of astronauts, only Yang Liwei, Liu Wang, and Zhang Xiaoguang have not entered China's space station.
However, they will not participate in the Shenzhou 19 mission, because although the mainland announces the crew list at the last minute, in fact, when the Shenzhou 18 crew is selected, the Shenzhou 19 crew list has already been decided, and they will have to train for at least half a year before they can carry out the mission.
Therefore, since the beginning of this year, it is impossible for astronauts who have appeared in public to participate in the Shenzhou 19 mission, and Yang Liwei and the other three have all appeared in public this year, so they will not have the opportunity to enter space this year.
The Shenzhou-18 crew, which is currently on a mission in the sky, is led by the second batch of astronauts Ye Guangfu as the commander and the third batch of astronauts Li Cong and Li Guangsu.
In fact, after the official completion of China's space station, the astronauts on the mainland who carried out the mission can be seen that the age is obviously younger, and the first batch of astronauts almost did not perform the mission.
In terms of age, the second batch of astronauts are all born in the 70s and 80s, and they are in the golden age of astronauts.
The third batch of astronauts has just started to carry out the mission, and the position of the commander should not be picked up by them, so the crew configuration of Shenzhou 19 is most likely the same as that of Shenzhou 18, which is a second batch of astronauts, plus two third batch of astronauts.
However, it is difficult to say which of the second batch of astronauts will be the commander, you can take a look at the astronauts who have not appeared in public since the beginning of this year, especially in the past six months, and you may be able to guess the answer.
There are also many friends who are curious, more than ten countries have been approved to join the Chinese space station, so when will there be foreign astronauts? It should be impossible this year, and it will be next year at the earliest, before the European and Saudi astronauts have trained in China, so they are all likely to enter the Chinese space station.
There are also Russia cosmonauts, because of Sino-Russian cooperation in the field of space, which is also entirely possible.
After talking about the major events of China's aerospace in October, let's talk about United States.
Earlier we mentioned that a rocket in United States exploded in mid-air, maybe some friends will say, why haven't you heard this news? United States For example, at the beginning of this year, United States launched two-month probes one after another, and the results were not all mission failures? And this matter, too, few people know.
2. United States rocket exploded in mid-air
United States rocket that exploded this time was the Vulcan rocket, which was launched on October 4 at Cape Canaveral Air Base in United States. The cause of the explosion was the explosion of the booster on one side, but the last stage of the rocket and the simulated load carried on it successfully entered the predetermined orbit. All in all, the mission was a success.
However, the explosion of the booster behind the rocket shows that the technology is still immature, because this rocket is not the first time that there has been a problem, as early as December last year, because the thruster test did not pass, the launch time was postponed.
In January of this year, the rocket was responsible for sending the Peregrine lunar lander into space, but the mission failed because the Peregrine lunar lander had an abnormality when heading towards the moon and eventually burned up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Although the rocket launch encountered a small explosion this time, a large number of parts were visibly dropped with the naked eye, and sparks flew in the air, so the problem of this rocket was equivalent to shattering the United States's "moon dream" a little.
Don't look at the launch of the "Vulcan" rocket, it is a commercial space company, but this commercial space company is not ordinary.
Its full name is United States United Launch Alliance", which is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed ·Martin, the two major military giants in United States, and this rocket has been developed since 2015, and the results have not been reliable until now.
You must know that this company carries all the hopes of United States, and the reason why United States supported Musk's SpaceX back then was to stimulate the United States United Launch Alliance, hoping that this company could make some achievements.
As a result, I didn't expect to pull my crotch so much, especially Boeing, which has made United States lose face this year.
So now United States if you want to return to the moon and United States want to continue to pursue your dream of space, you can only pin your hopes on Musk.
In particular, Musk's "Starship", as one of the keys to United States' return to the moon, is only allowed to succeed and not to fail.
Even the Mars program behind United States depends on Musk's "starship".
How else to say that NASA is really not good? Who would have thought that he, a United States national team, would regress to the point where it is not as good as commercial spaceflight. In this case, what does NASA compare with China's aerospace? To be surpassed, it is inevitable.