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Chinese Astronauts survival training in the desert

Last Updated on 2020/10/30

Fifteen Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts (太空人),  have just completed desert survival training deep in the Badain Jaran Desert near Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

Organized by the Astronaut Center of China (ACC), the program was designed to prepare taikonauts with the capacity to survive in the wilderness in the event their re-entry capsule lands off target.

Related: Photographic history of the Chinese Space Program.

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Chinese Astronaut Liu Wang exits from a re-entry capsule during a wilderness survival training in the Badain Jaran Desert in northwest China’s Gansu Province, May 17, 2018. (Xinhua photo/Chen Bin)
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Chen Dong (C) participates in a launchpad emergency escape training in northwest China’s Gansu Province, May 16, 2018. (Xinhua photo/Chen Bin)
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Nie Haisheng (C), Zhang Xiaoguang (L) and Liu Wang participate in a wilderness survival training in the Badain Jaran Desert in northwest China’s Gansu Province, May 17, 2018. (Xinhua photo/Chen Bin)
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Nie Haisheng (L) and Liu Wang exit from a re-entry capsule during a wilderness survival training in the Badain Jaran Desert in northwest China’s Gansu Province, May 17, 2018. (Xinhua photo/Chen Bin)
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Wang Yaping participates in a wilderness survival training in the Badain Jaran Desert in northwest China’s Gansu Province, May 22, 2018. (Xinhua photo/Chen Bin)
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Wang Yaping and Chen Dong (Xinhua photo/Chen Bin)
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Staff members arrange for a wilderness survival training for taikonauts in the Badain Jaran Desert in northwest China’s Gansu Province, May 17, 2018. (Xinhua photo/Chen Bin)
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Nie Haisheng, Liu Wang and Zhang Xiaoguang. (Xinhua photo/Chen Bin)
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Wang Yaping in her early twenties she was already a pilot for the PLA when she saw Yang Liwei, the first Chinese man in space, on TV. In 2013, she became the second Chinese woman in space. (Xinhua photo/Chen Bin)

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