{"id":2000113076,"date":"2026-05-25T13:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000113076"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:11:17","slug":"shenzhou-23-astronauts-enter-tiangong-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/shenzhou-23-astronauts-enter-tiangong-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhou-23 astronauts enter Tiangong space station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Shenzhou-21 crew aboard Tiangong opened the hatch at 5:13 a.m. (Beijing Time) and welcomed the new arrivals, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two crews then took group pictures for the eighth space get-together in China’s aerospace history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will conduct handover work aboard the space station, the CMSA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on May 25, 2026 shows the crew of Shenzhou-21 and Shenzhou-23 spaceships talking with each other.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The three astronauts aboard China’s Shenzhou-23 spaceship have entered the Tiangong space station and met with another astronaut trio on Monday, starting a new round of in-orbit crew handover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000113077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000113076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000113077,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/FVQbzKH4w3qjJY3b.jpeg","alt":"","caption":"This image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on May 25, 2026 shows a group picture of the crew of Shenzhou-21 and Shenzhou-23 spaceships.","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1024,"height":571,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/FVQbzKH4w3qjJY3b.jpeg","width":150,"height":84},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/FVQbzKH4w3qjJY3b.jpeg","width":300,"height":167},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/FVQbzKH4w3qjJY3b.jpeg","width":768,"height":428},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/FVQbzKH4w3qjJY3b.jpeg","width":1024,"height":571},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/FVQbzKH4w3qjJY3b.jpeg","width":1024,"height":571}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000113076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000113079,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113076\/revisions\/2000113079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000113077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000113076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000113076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000113076"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000113076"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000113076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}