{"id":47123,"date":"2022-11-30T07:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T07:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/china-s-six-astronauts-in-two-missions-make-historic-gathering-in-space\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T07:12:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T07:12:47","slug":"china-s-six-astronauts-in-two-missions-make-historic-gathering-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/china-s-six-astronauts-in-two-missions-make-historic-gathering-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s six astronauts in two missions make historic gathering in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chen Dong, the commander of the Shenzhou-14 crew, opened the hatch at 7:33 a.m. (Beijing Time). The three space station occupants greeted the new arrivals with warm hugs and then they took a group picture with their thumbs up, shouting in chorus &#8212; &#8220;China&#8217;s space station is always worth looking forward to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The space reunion kicked off the first in-orbit crew rotation in China&#8217;s space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).<\/p>\n<p>The six astronauts are projected to live and work together for about five days to complete planned tasks and handover work, said the CMSA.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45389 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/bakiana.jpg.png\" alt=\"This image captured at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China shows the Shenzhou-15 and Shenzhou-14 crew waving after a historic gathering in space on Nov. 30, 2022.  The three astronauts aboard China&#039;s Shenzhou-15 spaceship entered the country&#039;s space station and met with another astronaut trio on Wednesday, a historic gathering that added the manpower at the in-orbit space lab to six for the first time.  Chen Dong, the commander of the Shenzhou-14 crew, opened the hatch at 7:33 a.m. (Beijing Time). The three space station occupants greeted the new arrivals with warm hugs and then they took a group picture with their thumbs up, shouting in chorus -- &quot;China&#039;s space station is always worth looking forward to.&quot; (Xinhua\/Guo Zhongzheng)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) &#8212; The three astronauts aboard China&#8217;s Shenzhou-15 spaceship entered the country&#8217;s space station and met with another astronaut trio on Wednesday, a historic gathering that added the manpower at the in-orbit space lab to six for the first time.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-homenews","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47123","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47123"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47123"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}