The three Chinese astronauts who are now on board Tianhe, the core module of Tiangong space station, will work and live there for about six months. This is the longest mission so far for Chinese astronauts.
relatively cursory check, but just to make sure nothing has happened unforeseen between when you last checked them, and as you heard, you ll be going through additional 5g, you ll go through 3g, have a lot of disorientation from microgravity. so you want to make sure everything is working normally. so it s going to be a cursory check, not a deep check. and the four people inside have very little to do, right? there s no pre-check stuff that they have to do to make sure that the capsule and the whole rocket is good. scott, i m just wondering, zero gravity, you experience it more than anybody else. but even three minutes does affect your body. yeah, it will have an effect. it might make them feel a little bitdisoriented. probably not enough time for them to physically get sick in that period of time. if i can encourage them, though,
in on something. the whole adaptation to zero gravity and the impact. so when you re on the parabolic flight or the vomit comet, every 20 seconds, you go from microgravity to pulling about 2g. so that s a very different profile. so the nausea, the things that you feel are really more akin to motion sickness than space adaptation syndrome or adapting to zero g. so what happens with the three minutes, it s probably going to be more akin to motion effects. but once you actually go into orbit, then there s a really complex series of physiological adaptations that cause people to have issues, because your inner ear is working differently. your eyes are seeing dhinchts. they re mismatches. the blood is redistributing differently. it takes three or four days
embryos develop this space, frog embryos develop in space. there was this wide range of experimentation that i think is also part of the heart blood of space exploration, and why you use microgravity as a platform. it was both, the visual, the physiological, but the work and how we can use it back here on earth. those visions hold for me. and scott, i would kind of ask you the same question. what is it like or the things that yo keep close to you that changed you? just seeing the curvature of the earth and crossing that barrier. what are the things you keep as the most impactful? certainly the first time you
0 i wouldn t say all of it is aimed towards that. of course, any commercial veteran needs to turn a profit in order to stay in business. so it s partially about that. it s partially about helping jeff bezos realize his big picture dream of colonizing what we call sis lunar space, the area between low earth orbit and the moon. this is a small first step for jeff bezos and blue origin, showing that they can launch people successfully into space and they have other rockets and bigger ambitions on the drawing board. if you want to take really big picture view of it, in jeff bezos mind, this is all about saving planet earth by helping to move industries off planet. but in the shorter term, the company needs to turn a profit in order to keep going. and you can see right now, jose i want to point out, you can see, in addition to looking at the four astronauts to the left on your screen is jeff bezos. he, of course, is not going to be aboard this craft. i interviewed him after the last