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.

Twenty-eight participants recently completed the country's first cave-survival training for astronauts, according to the China Manned Space Agency.

The Shenzhou-21 crew aboard China's Tiangong space station have recently successfully completed a series of crucial in-orbit training exercises and advanced scientific experiments, laying solid groundwork for future missions and scientific discovery.

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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