Scientific aspirations of the Chinese Space Station program:an interview with Ming Gao

摘要

＜正＞On 17 June 2021, China’s spacecraft Shenzhou 12 took three Chinese astronauts into the Earth’s orbit and docked with the assembly of Tianhe and Tianzhou, the core module and cargo ship of the Chinese Space Station （CSS）,which had been launched and assembled in orbit earlier this year.The three astronauts became the first visitors of the CSS and would stay in orbitf or about three months.In 2022, two laboratory cabin modules, Wentian and Mengtian, will be launched and assembled into Tianhe, completing the basic structure of the CSS.