2021 Chinese crewed spaceflight to the Tiangong Space Station
Shenzhou 12
Launch of Shenzhou 12 on a Long March 2F
Mission type
Tiangong space station crew transport
Operator
China Manned Space Agency
COSPAR ID
2021-053A
SATCAT no.
48852
Mission duration
92 days, 4 hours and 11 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft
Shenzhou 12
Spacecraft type
Shenzhou
Manufacturer
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Crew
Crew size
3
Members
Nie Haisheng Liu Boming Tang Hongbo
EVAs
2
EVA duration
12 hours 41 minutes[1]
Start of mission
Launch date
17 June 2021, 01:22:27 UTC[2]
Rocket
Long March 2F
Launch site
Jiuquan, SLS-1
Contractor
China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology
End of mission
Landing date
17 September 2021, 05:34 UTC
Landing site
Inner Mongolia, China
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric orbit
Regime
Low Earth orbit
Inclination
41.5°
Docking with Tiangong space station
Docking port
Tianhe forward
Docking date
17 June 2021, 07:54 UTC[3]
Undocking date
16 September 2021, 00:56 UTC[4]
Time docked
90 days, 17 hours and 2 minutes
Shenzhou 12 mission patch Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming
Shenzhou program
← Shenzhou 11
Shenzhou 13 →
Shenzhou 12 (Chinese: 神舟十二号; pinyin: Shénzhōu shí'èr hào; lit. 'Divine Boat Number 12') was a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station, launched on 17 June 2021. It carried three People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonauts on board a Shenzhou spacecraft. The mission was the seventh crewed Chinese spaceflight and the twelfth flight overall of the Shenzhou program. It was the first flight to Tiangong, and the first Chinese crewed spaceflight since Shenzhou 11 in 2016.[5]
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