Chinese astronauts celebrated National Day in space for the first time, and tomatoes planted in the space station grew seedlings.
CTOnews.com October 4, according to Xinhua Agency reported that this year's National Day holiday, Chinese astronauts spent the first time in space. China Manned Space Engineering Office officially released Shenzhou 14 crew astronauts in orbit to take photos.
China manned space engineering network official micro bo @ manned space small horn published Shenzhou 14 astronauts in orbit shooting works, a total of 12 photos, one of which is astronaut Cai Xuzhe planted tomatoes in the Chinese space station, grow seedlings!
During this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, astronaut Cai Xuzhe carried seeds, after nearly three months of planting and cultivation, have grown into two green space lettuce, and ate on the Mid-Autumn Festival day.
In 2016, Chinese astronauts tried to grow vegetables in space for the first time. Progress has been made in water conservation, ventilation, slow release fertilizer and other aspects, astronauts only need to spend 10 minutes a day according to regulations.
According to CCTV News, the Chinese space station will carry out three more major launch missions in the coming months. Among them, the Mengtian experimental module will be launched in October and docked with the core module of the Chinese space station. After the launch of Mengtian Experimental Module, it will finally form a T-shaped configuration with Tianhe Core Module and Wentian Experimental Module III, which also marks the completion of the National Space Laboratory.
CTOnews.com understands that China will also carry out the launch missions of Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft and Shenzhou-15 manned spacecraft. The Shenzhou 15 manned spacecraft flight crew will consist of three astronauts and will join Shenzhou 14 at the end of this year. At that time, the Chinese space station will have six astronauts co-resident in orbit.
At present, Shenzhou 14 astronauts are stationed in orbit. On June 5, Shenzhou 14 manned spacecraft was successfully launched. Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe have since launched a six-month mission.
