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China’s astronauts complete cave training amid preparations for moon missions China’s astronaut corps has completed a near month-long underground cave training, conducted in part to prepare for future crewed lunar landing missions.
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China just put its astronauts through cave boot camp
Chinese astronauts just wrapped up a month or so spent largely underground, in an exercise meant to prep them for where Beijing wants to send them next. China's astronaut corps put 28 crew members through cave training in a mountainous part of Chongqing,
Twenty-eight participants recently completed the country's first cave-survival training for astronauts, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
As reported by Space News, the China Astronaut Research and Training Center (CARTC) just wrapped up a month-long training regimen meant to prepare future and veteran astronauts for lunar landing missions. The astronauts were split into four groups, each of which spent nearly a week in underground isolation.
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China's first astronaut cave training, organized and led by the Astronaut Center of China (ACC), successfully concluded in Wulong district, in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Global Times learned from the ACC on Monday.
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