{"id":151849,"date":"2026-05-23T01:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151849"},"modified":"2026-05-23T01:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:13:41","slug":"hong-kongs-first-astronaut-lai-ka-ying-picked-for-space-station-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151849","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying picked for space station mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHong Kong will send its first astronaut to the Tiangong space station, the China Manned Space Agency announced on Saturday.<br \/>\nLai Ka-ying, a police chief inspector and tech expert with a doctorate in computer science, will join the Shenzhou-23 mission as a payload specialist. She will become the fourth female astronaut to enter the Chinese space station.<br \/>\nAccording to the agency, she will work alongside two astronauts Zhu Yangzhu and Zhang Zhiyuan. Zhu, the mission commander, previously served on&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3354597\/hong-kongs-first-astronaut-lai-ka-ying-picked-space-station-mission?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHong Kong will send its first astronaut to the Tiangong space station, the China Manned Space Agency announced on Saturday. Lai Ka-ying, a police&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}