The
Tiangong space station
Tiangong (), officially the ''Tiangong'' space station (), is a permanently crewed space station constructed by China and operated by China Manned Space Agency. Tiangong is a modular design, with modules docked together while in low Earth o ...
is a Chinese
space station
A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains orbital spaceflight, in orbit and human spaceflight, hosts humans for extended periods of time. It therefore is an artificial satellite featuring space habitat (facility), habitat ...
in
low Earth orbit
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an geocentric orbit, orbit around Earth with a orbital period, period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an orbital eccentricity, eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of the artificial object ...
, and is operated by the
China Manned Space Agency
China Manned Space Agency (abbreviated as CMSA) is a government agency of China responsible for the administration of China Manned Space Program, the Chinese human spaceflight program. The agency is under the Equipment Development Department ...
.
Extravehicular activities are crucial for both the construction and maintenance of the station.
Zhai Zhigang
Zhai Zhigang (; born 11 October 1966) is a Chinese major general of the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLASSF) in active service as a People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut. During the Shenzhou 7 missio ...
completed the first Chinese spacewalk in 2008, during the
Shenzhou 7
Shenzhou 7 () was the third human spaceflight mission of the Chinese space program. The mission, which included the first Chinese extra-vehicular activity (EVA) carried out by crew members Zhai Zhigang and Liu Boming, marked the commencement o ...
mission. Since then, every other Chinese spacewalk has been carried out at the Tiangong space station.
List
*denotes spacewalks performed from the ''Tianhe'' core module
^denotes spacewalks performed from the ''Wentian'' module
Gallery
See also
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List of spacewalks and moonwalks
Lists of spacewalks and moonwalks include:
By date
* List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999
* List of spacewalks 2000–2014
* List of spacewalks 2015–2024
* List of spacewalks since 2025
By space station
* List of Salyut spacewalks
* ...
*
List of cumulative spacewalk records
This is a list of cumulative spacewalk records for the 30 astronauts who have the most extra-vehicular activity (EVA) time. The record is currently held by Anatoly Solovyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency, with 82:22 hours from 16 EVAs, fo ...
References
{{Spaceflight lists and timelines
Human spaceflight
Tiangong Space Station spacewalks
Tiangong program