Europe has spent some time preparing astronauts for possible future visits to Tiangong.
China began building Tiangong in April 2021 with the launch of Tianhe, the station's core module. A side module called Wentian went up last July, and assembly of the T-shaped Tiangong wrapped up with the arrival of the Mengtian module in October.
Tiangong has hosted four crewed missions to date, each of which carried three astronauts to the orbiting complex. All of these visitors have been members of China's People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps. Despite Aschbacher's recent statements, a European visit to Tiangong is still more likely than an American trip there. In 2011, Congress prohibited NASA from cooperating substantially with its Chinese counterpart without express prior authorization. This law, known as
, makes it very difficult for China to participate in the International Space Station program, if the nation even wishes to do so. Mike Wall is the author of"
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