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The other crew members are commander Zhu Yangzhu and pilot Zhang Yuanzhi, both from the People&#8217;s Liberation Army&#8217;s astronaut division.<\/p>\n<h2>CHINA, US SET SIGHTS ON MOON<\/h2>\n<p>One of the three is to stay on the Tiangong space station for a year, one of the longest space missions ever, but short of the 14-1\/2 month record set by a Russian cosmonaut in 1995. That astronaut will be decided later, depending on the progress of the mission, the China Manned Space Agency said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>China has sent astronauts to its space station almost a dozen times, but this launch comes amid an accelerating race to the moon with the US, which has warned about what it alleges are Beijing&#8217;s plans to colonise and mine lunar territory and resources.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has strongly rejected these claims.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is seeking to achieve a crewed moon landing in 2028, two years ahead of China. The US aims to establish a long-term lunar presence as a stepping stone to eventual human exploration of Mars.<\/p>\n<p>In April, four NASA astronauts made a historic trip around the moon as part of the Artemis II mission, flying farther from Earth than anyone before in the world&#8217;s first crewed lunar mission in half a century.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX made a largely successful, uncrewed test flight of its next-generation Starship rocket, which is designed to enable more frequent Starlink satellite launches and to send future NASA missions to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>China, with less than four years until its 2030 deadline, faces a tall order of developing entirely new hardware and software specific to its lunar mission, proving it is mission-ready. That will ensure its astronauts, used to the relative safety of Tiangong in low-Earth orbit, can safely make the riskier transition to the moon&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s Shenzhou missions have been sending trios of astronauts to the station for six-month stays since 2021. The Chinese space agency is training two Pakistani astronauts, one of whom could join an expected mission to Tiangong this year on a short-duration basis.<\/p>\n<h2>GOAL OF PERMANENT LUNAR BASE BY 2035<\/h2>\n<p>The previous mission, Shenzhou-22, was launched ahead of schedule in November to return three Chinese astronauts to Earth after their Shenzhou-20 vessel was damaged by space debris in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>China has only sent robots to the moon, but its successive Shenzhou missions highlight the country&#8217;s rapidly improving space capabilities. In June 2024, China became the first country to recover lunar samples from the moon&#8217;s far side, using robots.<\/p>\n<p>A successful crewed landing before 2030 would boost China&#8217;s plans to establish a permanent base on the moon by 2035 with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese lunar programme&#8217;s chief scientist, Wu Weiren, has said Beijing&#8217;s public timeline is intentionally conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, Beijing has been carrying out safety tests of hardware developed for the 2030 mission, including heavy-lift Long March-10 rockets, the Mengzhou spacecraft and the Lanyue lunar lander.<\/p>\n<p>The Shenzhou-23 flight will execute the first autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking procedure with the core module of Tiangong in preparation for the 2030 mission, which hinges on an automated lunar-orbit rendezvous between the Mengzhou capsule and the Lanyue lander.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists will also study the physiological effects of radiation exposure, bone density loss and psychological stress in space for the extended duration of the Shenzhou-23 mission.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing is conducting the world&#8217;s first human &#8220;artificial embryo&#8221; experiment in space, having sent samples of human stem cells to the Shenzhou-22 crew on the Tiangong this month, state media reported. 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