.jpg) Launch of Shenzhou 12 on a Long March 2F | |
| Mission type | Tiangong space station crew transport |
|---|---|
| Operator | China Manned Space Agency |
| COSPAR ID | 2021-053A |
| SATCAT no. | 48852 |
| Mission duration | 92 days, 4 hours and 11 minutes |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Shenzhou 12 |
| Spacecraft type | Shenzhou |
| Manufacturer | China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | Nie Haisheng Liu Boming Tang Hongbo |
| EVAs | 2 |
| EVA duration | 12 hours 41 minutes[1] |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 17 June 2021, 01:22:27 UTC[2] |
| Rocket | Long March 2F |
| Launch site | Jiuquan, SLS-1 |
| Contractor | China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 17 September 2021, 05:34 UTC |
| Landing site | Inner Mongolia, China |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Inclination | 41.5° |
| Docking with Tiangong space station | |
| Docking port | Tianhe forward |
| Docking date | 17 June 2021, 07:54 UTC[3] |
| Undocking date | 16 September 2021, 00:56 UTC[4] |
| Time docked | 90 days, 17 hours and 2 minutes |
 Shenzhou 12 mission patch  Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming | |
Shenzhou 12 (Chinese: 神舟十二号; pinyin: Shénzhōu shí'èr hào; lit. 'Divine Boat Number 12') was a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station, launched on 17 June 2021. It carried three People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonauts on board a Shenzhou spacecraft. The mission was the seventh crewed Chinese spaceflight and the twelfth flight overall of the Shenzhou program. It was the first flight to Tiangong, and the first Chinese crewed spaceflight since Shenzhou 11 in 2016.[5]
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