{"id":259765,"date":"2025-11-03T13:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259765\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:32:25","slug":"china-is-selecting-pakistani-astronauts-with-one-set-to-join-future-short-duration-spaceflight-cmsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259765\/","title":{"rendered":"China is selecting Pakistani astronauts, with one set to join future short-duration spaceflight: CMSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"738285\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; width: 100%; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" alt=\"Latest news\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9bcd6cd1-aad0-4478-8097-720edb61d420.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\" style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-top: 3px; color: #999\">Latest news<\/p>\n<p>China is currently selecting astronauts from Pakistan, with one expected to take part in a short-duration space mission at an appropriate time, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the signing of a cooperation agreement between China and Pakistan in February this year, the official selection process for Pakistani astronauts has been launched, a spokesperson from CMSA said at a Thursday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to China&#8217;s astronaut selection process, it consists of three stages: preliminary selection, secondary selection, and final selection. The preliminary stage is being carried out in Pakistan, while the secondary and final selections will take place in China, said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Preparations for the secondary selection phase are already underway, including training programs, teaching materials, training equipment, and logistical support for daily life during the training period.<\/p>\n<p>As planned, after the final selection, two Pakistani astronauts will undergo joint training with their Chinese counterparts. According to the mid-term planning of China&#8217;s space station missions and the progress of bilateral cooperation, one Pakistani astronaut will be selected to carry out a short-duration spaceflight as a payload specialist, said the CMSA spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>During the mission, the astronaut will not only participate in the crew&#8217;s routine work but also conduct scientific experiments on behalf of Pakistan, the spokesperson noted.<\/p>\n<p>Global Times<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest news China is currently selecting astronauts from Pakistan, with one expected to take part in a short-duration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-259765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}