Pakistani astronaut to join China space station's Shenzhou-24 mission
“A Pakistani astronaut will join China's space station on this year's Shenzhou-24 mission, as part of bilateral cooperation under Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese state media reported on S…”
The first foreign visitor to the space station will participate as a payload specialist in the mission, broadcasterCCTVreported, citing the China Manned Space Agency. China has not identified the astronaut, but pilots. Zeeshan Ali and Khurram Daudhave spent months training at the China Astronaut Research and Training Center in Beijing for a mission, a Pakistani space agency official told.
Reutersin September. Read:Pakistan to launch first astronaut into space from China on Nov 25: Ahsan Iqbal. Beijing has not announced the date of the mission.
CCTV said that after completing a short-term in-orbit flight, the astronaut will return to Earth aboard the Shenzhou-23 spacecraft. This marks the first joint spaceflight featuring both Chinese and foreign astronauts in the history of China's manned space program, under Beijing's space diplomacy.
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