Tiangong space station
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Sep 21, 2026
Shane BigghamHOST
The Astronaut Center of China says the country has cultivated more than 20 plant varieties spanning 14 species in orbit.
Shane BigghamHOST
This could lay the groundwork for large-scale crop production aboard the Tiangong Space Station.
Shane BigghamHOST
China's space station has entered an era of long-term human habitation.
Shane BigghamHOST
One member of the Shenzhou-23 crew will conduct a one-year stay in orbit.
Tian YuHOST
The Astronaut Center of China says the country has cultivated more than 20 varieties spanning 14 plant species in orbit.
Tian YuHOST
This could lay the groundwork for large-scale crop production aboard the Tiangong space station.
Tian YuHOST
China's space station has entered an era of long-term human habitation.
Tian YuHOST
One member of the Shenzhou-23 crew will conduct a one-year in-orbit stay.
PeterHOST
So what crops could even grow in low gravity? Well, leafy greens, peas, and vegetables have all been grown in various experiments back in the days of the International Space Station.
PeterHOST
And back in 2022, Chinese researchers aboard the Tiangong Space Station grew rice grains for their complete life cycles, from seed to grain and all the way back to seed again.
PeterHOST
That's an important step because getting anything, even seeds, to the moon is extremely costly.
PeterHOST
In 2026, Astrobotic quoted $1.2 million per kilogram to get something to the moon.
Tian YuHOST
The Astronaut Center of China says the country has cultivated more than 20 varieties spanning 14 plant species in orbit.
Tian YuHOST
This could lay the groundwork for large-scale crop production aboard the Tiangong space station.
Tian YuHOST
China's space station has entered an era of long-term human habitation.
Tian YuHOST
One member of the Shenzhou-23 crew will conduct a one-year in-orbit stay.
TianluHOST
The mission marked the 17th flight of the Legion rocket series, which has so far sent 121 satellites and one spacecraft into space.
TianluHOST
China's Tiangong space station has upgraded its kitchen with intelligent appliances and a wider range of food choices to improve astronauts' lives during long stays in orbit.
TianluHOST
The new equipment includes a water dispenser, microwave and hot air oven, allowing astronauts to enjoy hot meals within 20 minutes.
TianluHOST
They can also bake chicken wings, steak and cake, while yogurt can be fermented in space.
TianluHOST
The mission marked the 17th flight of the Legion rocket series, which has so far sent 121 satellites and one spacecraft into space.
TianluHOST
China's Tiangong space station has upgraded its kitchen with intelligent appliances and a wider range of food choices to improve astronauts' lives during long stays in orbit.
TianluHOST
The new equipment includes a water dispenser, microwave and hot air oven, allowing astronauts to enjoy hot meals within 20 minutes.
TianluHOST
They can also bake chicken wings, steak and cake, while yogurt can be fermented in space.
speaker_0HOST
The intelligence briefing provided two fascinating cultural data points originating from China.
speaker_0HOST
First, the China National Space Administration conducted a live 90-minute educational broadcast directly from the Tiangong space station.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
speaker_0HOST
The astronauts performed fluid dynamics experiments in zero gravity and spoke directly to students in classrooms across Hong Kong and Macau.
speaker_0HOST
They are utilizing Virgin Galactic for the suborbital flights, and the package is priced at roughly $760,000.
speaker_1HOST
This illustrates a dual-pronged approach to space dominance by Beijing.
speaker_1HOST
On one hand, the Tiangong broadcast is an exercise in pure soft power.
speaker_1HOST
Winning hearts and minds.
Namrata GoswamiGUEST
The other area that they talk about is connecting it to low Earth orbit as well, where they are building platform.
Namrata GoswamiGUEST
So as you know, they have the Tiangong Space Station, right? Yeah.
Namrata GoswamiGUEST
Along with the International Space Station.
Namrata GoswamiGUEST
The ISS is, I think, de-orbiting by 2030.
speaker_0NARRATOR
It is roughly the size of a football pitch across its truss, masses around 420 tonnes and has hosted people from more than 20 countries.
speaker_0NARRATOR
China has since built and occupied its own station, Tiangong.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Between them, these programs represent well over two decades of unbroken human presence in orbit, and essentially everything we know about keeping people alive up there in practice, rather than in theory, comes from them.
speaker_0NARRATOR
What none of them are, though, is a city.
QuinnHOST
Still, while it never flew or physically existed, Shuguang and Project 714 did create a lasting legacy, and helped future Chinese space projects like Project 921, which is the current Chinese manned space program that put Yang Liwei in orbit, and currently operates the only sovereign space station in existence.
Other ChrisHOST
Oh, yeah, Tiangong.
QuinnHOST
Yeah.
QuinnHOST
I mean, you've got the ISS and you've got Tiangong, and Tiangong just belongs to China.
QuinnHOST
You've also got things like the Institute of Space Medicine, which continued to exist after the end of the program, and handles taikonaut training till today
ChrisHOST
They're still wiggling guys.
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