China’s manned space station engineering research project was officially launched

Beginning of the year, approved by the Ministry of Science of China, the first National Key Basic Research Program in China’s space industry – "variation laws and mechanism research of operating capability and mechanism of variation of long-term space flight astronauts " officially launched in China Astronaut Center.

China’s future space station imagine figure

At present, China’s manned space program has risen to between heaven and earth, and extravehicular activities, technology, manned space missions into Central and long-term space flight short-term presence in space, manned space station project and other follow-up to the task has been put on the agenda. Center for Chinese astronauts start the implementation of the "long-term space flight for astronauts operating capacity and mechanisms of variation" project, focusing on weight loss, rapid changes in day and night, a small environmental factors impact on the astronauts carried out research to reveal long-term space for astronauts flying changes of operational capacity and mechanisms to ensure long-term space flight astronauts safe, healthy and efficient work. The study involved need to overcome China’s manned space project a major scientific issues, for promoting the development of aerospace medical engineering, the implementation of the manned space station project, will play an important role.

It is reported that the project is the first country in the field of aerospace Key Basic Research Program, the execution time for 2011 to 2015. Project research team, including China Aerospace Science and life science research, the 8 well-known research institutes. Start the implementation of the project, marking the national key basic research has opened up important new directions, will effectively promote the aerospace medical engineering basic research work to a new level.

National Key Basic Research Program is a major national demand, on China’s future development and advancement of science and technology strategic, forward-looking, and driving overall development program of basic research. The plan’s strategic goal is to strengthen the original innovation, at a deeper level and broader areas of national economic and social development to solve major scientific problems in order to improve China’s independent innovation capability and the ability to solve major problems for the country’s future development scientific support.