China News Agency, Beijing, September 17 (Mar Shuaisha Guo Chaokai) The three astronauts of the Shenzhou 12 flight crew returned to Earth on the 17th and successfully landed on the Dongfeng landing site.

Regarding whether there will be female astronauts stationed on the Chinese space station in the future, Yang Yuguang, vice chairman of the International Astronautical Federation Space Transportation Committee and researcher of the Second Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, recently said in an exclusive interview with China News Agency that the importance of female astronauts Sex is irreplaceable, and it is inevitable that there will be female astronauts on the Chinese space station in the future.

　　Yang Yuguang said that the importance of female astronauts is irreplaceable.

Humans enter space to conduct more scientific experiments and to go deeper into space.

From this perspective, only male astronauts are incomplete, and women have more advantages in more detailed operations, including language advantages.

From the perspective of long-term space life, the psychological compensatory role of male and female complementarity is also very important for long-term space flight.

　　He further pointed out that, judging from foreign examples, there are a large number of female astronauts not only able to stay in the space station for a long time, but some even serve as the commander of the spacecraft pilot or even the entire flight mission. This situation exists.

Liu Yang and Wang Yaping have already experienced space flight as crews of China's Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10 spacecraft. The time is not short, reaching more than ten days.

"We look forward to the emergence of female astronauts on the Chinese space station in the future. This is inevitable."

　　Outsiders have noticed that the average age of the Shenzhou 12 flight crew is over 52 years old. Some people think that the astronauts on this mission are too old.

Yang Yuguang talked about the echelon construction of astronauts.

He believes that 50s is not a big age. The United States, Russia and other countries have a large number of astronauts over 50.

It takes at least two years for astronauts to be qualified for actual flight from the initial selection to the long-term physical adaptability and various space operation skills training.

　　"In the past, during important space missions abroad, at least one person (in the crew of astronauts) had space flight experience. For example, in the crew of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that first landed on the moon in the United States, all three astronauts had previous experience. Space flight experience." Yang Yuguang said.

　　Yang Yuguang emphasized that the mission of Shenzhou 12 is very important. It has undertaken tasks such as the first long-term stay, renewable environmental control and life support system, and complex exit activities. It also requires an experienced crew.

From the beginning of the Shenzhou 9 mission, it was generally "one old with two new" or "one old with one new", this time it became "two olds with one new", and even Nie Haisheng had two flight experiences in the past.

　　Yang Yuguang said that China has now completed the selection of the third batch of astronauts, including not only space pilots, but also space mission experts and onboard engineers.

The first generation of astronauts were all selected from pilots, and the third group of astronauts, because the proportion of space station mission scientific research is getting higher and higher, it is necessary to have more engineers and scientists into orbit to conduct more complex space scientific research. And actual operation.

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