{"id":3982,"date":"2026-11-07T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T09:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2026-11-07T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T09:03:43","slug":"pakistani-astronaut-to-join-china-space-stations-shenzhou-24-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3982","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani astronaut to join China space station&#8217;s Shenzhou-24 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A Pakistani astronaut will join China\u2019s space station on \u200bthis year\u2019s Shenzhou-24 mission, as part of \u200cbilateral cooperation under Beijing\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese state media reported on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u200bfirst foreign visitor to the \u200bspace station will participate as a payload \u2060specialist in the mission, broadcaster \u200bCCTV reported, citing the China Manned Space \u200bAgency.<\/p>\n<p>China has not identified the astronaut, but pilots <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/science\/chinas-space-diplomacy-lifts-pakistani-astronaut-toward-orbit-2026-09-28\/\">Zeeshan Ali and Khurram Daud<\/a> have spent months \u200btraining at the China Astronaut Research \u200band Training Centre in Beijing for a mission, \u200ca \u2060Pakistani space agency official told Reuters in September.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has not announced the date of the mission.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV said that after \u200bcompleting a \u200bshort-term \u2060in-orbit flight, the astronaut will return to Earth aboard the \u200bShenzhou-23 spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first \u200bjoint \u2060spaceflight featuring both Chinese and foreign astronauts in the history of China\u2019s manned \u2060space \u200bprogram, under Beijing\u2019s <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/science\/chinas-space-diplomacy-lifts-pakistani-astronaut-toward-orbit-2026-09-28\/\">space diplomacy.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistani astronaut will join China\u2019s space station on \u200bthis year\u2019s Shenzhou-24 mission, as part of \u200cbilateral cooperation under Beijing\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese state media reported on Saturday. The \u200bfirst foreign visitor to the \u200bspace station will participate as a payload \u2060specialist in the mission, broadcaster \u200bCCTV reported, citing the China Manned Space \u200bAgency. China has not identified the astronaut, but pilots Zeeshan Ali and Khurram Daud have spent months \u200btraining at the China Astronaut Research \u200band Training Centre in Beijing for a mission, \u200ca \u2060Pakistani space agency&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}