2026年5月24日 / 美国东部时间下午1:11 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
中国于周日成功发射又一艘载人飞船，将三名航天员送往本国空间站。神舟二十三号乘组中有一名航天员预计将在轨驻留一年，这将跻身全球单次太空驻留时长最长的纪录之列。
飞船从中国西北部的酒泉卫星发射中心发射升空。该中心官员李本琪在官方媒体发布的录像讲话中称此次发射“取得圆满成功”。
此次备受瞩目的发射正值中国为2030年前实现首次载人登月做准备之际。
本次任务的航天员分别是指令长朱杨柱、张智源，以及赖嘉颖——中国官方同时标注了其姓名的普通话音译李加英。
赖嘉颖在香港出生长大，拥有计算机取证学博士学位，是首位执行太空任务的香港籍航天员。据中国官方媒体报道，她同时也是中国第四位进入太空的女航天员。
神舟二十三号载人飞船于2026年5月24日周日从中国西北部酒泉的酒泉卫星发射中心发射升空。美联社图片/吴汉官
官方媒体称，乘组将开展数十项科学与应用项目。他们还将与已在天宫空间站驻留200余天的神舟二十一号乘组完成在轨轮换。
神舟二十一号乘组三人于去年10月下旬发射升空，其中包括中国最年轻的航天员。飞船上还搭载了四只小鼠，这是中国航天项目启动以来首次在太空任务中携带活体哺乳动物。
据官方媒体报道，神舟二十三号乘组中的一名航天员计划在在轨空间站驻留一年，任务目标是“探索人类在长期太空飞行环境中的适应能力与性能极限”。
随着中国航天计划加速推进，其航天员已多次执行前往天宫空间站的任务。天宫空间站是在中国因美国担忧国家安全而被基本排除在国际空间站合作之外后自主研发的。
美国被视为中国最主要的航天竞争对手，美国国家航空航天局（NASA）计划于2028年实现航天员登月。
中国空间站“天宫”意为“天宫”，2021年首次迎来本国航天员入驻。去年，神舟项目启动了一次应急任务，接回了因飞船受损而被困在空间站的乘组。
在此之前，还有一批中国航天员因飞船返回窗口受损，在尝试返回地球时延误了九天，最终在神舟二十一号乘组抵达空间站后，搭乘神舟二十一号飞船顺利返回。中国航天项目认定受损的神舟二十号飞船不符合搭载航天员的安全标准。
China launches Shenzhou 23 spacecraft carrying 3 astronauts, including 1 set to remain in space for a year
May 24, 2026 / 1:11 PM EDT / CBS/AP
China successfully launched another spacecraft Sunday that is set to carry three astronauts to its space station. One crew member aboard the Shenzhou 23 is expected to remain in space for one year, which would be among the world’s longest single stays in space.
The spacecraft blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China. Li Benqi, an official at the center, called the launch “a complete success” in videotaped remarks published by Chinese state media.
The much-anticipated launch comes as China prepares for its first crewed lunar landing by 2030.
The astronauts on the mission are Zhu Yangzhu, the commander, Zhang Zhiyuan and Lai Ka-ying, also identified by Chinese authorities as Li Jiaying using the Mandarin transliteration of her name.
Lai, who was born and raised in Hong Kong and has a doctoral degree in computer forensics, is the first astronaut from the city on a space mission. She’s also the country’s fourth female astronaut to travel to space, according to Chinese state media.
The Shenzhou-23 manned mission launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwestern China on Sunday, May 24, 2026. AP Photo/Ng Han Guan
The crew is set to conduct dozens of science and application projects, state media said. They are also expected to complete an in-orbit rotation with the crew of Shenzhou 21, who has been at the Tiangong space station for more than 200 days.
Launching in late October, the three-person crew of Shenzhou 21 included China’s youngest astronaut. Four mice were on board with them, marking the first live mammals on a space mission since Beijing launched its program.
One of the three astronauts on the Shenzhou 23 mission is scheduled to stay at the orbiting space station for a year The astronaut’s mission is to “explore human adaptability and performance limits” in long-duration spaceflight environments, state media reported.
As China steps up its space program, its astronauts have carried out multiple missions to the Tiangong space station, developed after China was effectively excluded from the International Space Station on U.S. concerns over national security.
The U.S. is seen as China’s top space rival, with NASA aiming to land astronauts on the lunar surface in 2028.
China’s space station Tiangong, which translates to “Heavenly Palace,” first hosted the country’s crew in 2021. Last year, an emergency mission in the Shenzhou program, which means “Divine Vessel,” returned a team of astronauts stranded on the space station due to a damaged spacecraft.
Before that, group of Chinese astronauts faced a nine-day delay as they attempted to return to Earth, after the window of their spacecraft was damaged. They did ultimately return on the Shenzhou 21 spacecraft, once its crew arrived at the space station. China’s space program determined that the damaged spacecraft, Shenzhou 20, did not meet the safety standards necessary to carry astronauts.
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