As China pursues its ambitious plans for a human-crewed lunar landing by 2030.
The world's second-largest economy has invested billions of dollars in its military-run space programme, trying to catch up with the United States and Russia after years of belatedly matching their milestones.Gui Haichao is a professor at Beijing's Beihang University, and will manage scientific experiments on the station during the mission, China Manned Space Agency spokesperson Lin Xiqiang told reporters on Monday.
Gui's addition is"particularly significant", independent analyst Chen Lan told AFP, given previous missions only carried astronauts trained as pilots responsible for more technical tasks and not specialist scientists. The commander is Jing Haipeng -- on his fourth mission into space, according to state media -- and the third crew member is engineer Zhu Yangzhu.
China is planning to build a base on the Moon, and CMSA spokesman Lin on Monday reaffirmed Beijing's plan to land a manned mission there by 2030. The station carries a number of pieces of cutting-edge scientific equipment, state news agency Xinhua reported, including"the world's first space-based cold atomic clock system".
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