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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) — The China Manned Space Administration (CMSA) announced that it will start accepting proposals from April 1 for a human space exploration program aimed at addressing critical strategic, fundamental, and advanced scientific challenges such as ensuring long-term healthy human existence during future space station and lunar landing missions.
This program aims to create an atlas of the human body in space, build a database of human body research in space, and obtain a number of innovative scientific results that could benefit both the health of astronauts on long-term orbital flights and the population of Earth.
It is also part of the country's efforts to accelerate the creation of aerospace and technological capabilities, according to program guidelines released by CMSA this week.
The program, which will use human tissue samples, organoids, and cells as research subjects, will study the effects of microgravity on bone and muscle, as well as the impact of long-term spaceflight and post-return conditions on the heart and blood vessels, metabolism, cognitive function, and aging processes.
Space medicine experiments are among the priority research areas aboard China's Tiangong space station, which translates as "Heavenly Palace." According to the CMSA, a total of 387 projects have been submitted since the call for proposals was published in June 2023, 53 of which have been implemented in orbit.
China plans a crewed lunar landing by 2030. Additionally, two crews will arrive at the Tiangong orbital space station this year, with one of the participating taikonauts expected to spend more than a year in orbit. As long-duration crewed space missions become more common, astronaut welfare has become a matter of public concern.
Research in space medicine has also helped improve public health on Earth.
According to Li Yinghui, a researcher at the China Astronaut Research Center, the country has made several advances in this field, including completing the country's first research into a space-based organ chip and the world's first chip for artificial blood vessels. The results of these studies have provided theoretical and technological support for research in the fields of heart health, muscle health, neurodegenerative diseases, human aging, drug resistance, and screening. -0-
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