China's Space Program News Thread

[superdog]

Yup. Brain fart on my part. Grissom was clearly forgiven for whatever happened.


Speculation. I'd like to see if we have something a bit more authoritative. Another poster mentioned the rumor he may have been injured. That's a touch more credible than you or I making things up as we guess.

He was injured, had bleeding lips due to hitting his helmet mic at landing. He talked about it in his autobiography book, so not a rumor.

Still, that's a minor injury which wouldn't have prevented future missions. In a recent interview it was disclosed that he's still participating in astronaut training, he probably still maintained the qualifications to go up there.

There could be a number of reasons he didn't get picked for newer missions. An obvious one is that he has become the director of China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO), responsible for a lot of administration and leadership duties. If you think of it as a football team, it'd be difficult to excel as a manager and a player at the same time.

*edit: I just checked, actually Yang has moved from the director of CMSEO to become deputy chief designer of the China Manned Space project. The reasoning remains though, he has a lot of admin and leadership duties to do.

 

[Richard Santos]

The first question is is he still flight rated? He could have assumed many other administrative duties but still maintain his flight rating, Which means theoretically he is still in the pool of astronauts who can be evaluate for future missions.

 

[Richard Santos]

NASA has many astronauts will remain in the astronaut corp, and retain their fly ratings for a long time After their last flight. They were theoretically available for future missions if their qualifications are judged to have been the best available for the missions. Typically there is incentive to send new astronauts up in to broaden the base of flight experience rather then to keep sending the same ones up.

 

[siegecrossbow]

back on topic please. We have a NASA thread.

 

[Richard Santos]

with the space station, china will need to send up around 4 manned missions a year. That is 10 times the mission frequency compared to the leisurely pace of the last 20 years. So there has to be pressure to rapidly build up a large astronaut corp. You do that by giving your new astronauts as many chances to fly as you possibly can, not by sending the same few highly experienced astronauts up again and again

 

[voyager1]

with the space station, china will need to send up around 4 manned missions a year. That is 10 times the mission frequency compared to the leisurely pace of the last 20 years. So there has to be pressure to rapidly build up a large astronaut corp. You do that by giving your new astronauts as many chances to fly as you possibly can, not by sending the same few highly experienced astronauts up again and again

The first missions however need to be made by experienced Chinese astronauts.

Its not like the space station is already complete and the astronauts will just do experiments.

At this moment only experienced people should go there. They need to construct it, set up machines, supplies, etc

 

[superdog]

The first question is is he still flight rated? He could have assumed many other administrative duties but still maintain his flight rating, Which means theoretically he is still in the pool of astronauts who can be evaluate for future missions.

At least according to wikipedia, he is still in active duty of the PLA astronaut corps.

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Among all the 1st batch PLA astronauts, 5 has retired from astronaut duty with official confirmation, Yang was not one of them. None of the PLA astronauts who went to space has been reported to retire.

 

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[Richard Santos]

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[PiSigma]

At least according to wikipedia, he is still in active duty of the PLA astronaut corps.

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Among all the 1st batch PLA astronauts, 5 has retired from astronaut duty with official confirmation, Yang was not one of them. None of the PLA astronauts who went to space has been reported to retire.

Yang is too famous and old now. He just do administration stuff and is kept busy with teaching the new guys.