Summary of Shenzhou missions

Note Scheduled and ongoing missions are highlighted in italics, respectively.
Throughout tables the European time format (day/month/year) is used; all times are UTC.

Last update: 06 January 2010

Mission Crew Mission duration (crew) Landing site Purpose / mission highlights / noticeable events
no. designation (up/down) lift-off landing    
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1 Shenzhou-5 (SZ-5) 1 15/10/2003 15/10/2003 Inner Mongolia first taikonaut ("yuhangyuan") – the Chinese equivalent to American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts – who flew in space; SZ-5 circled the Earth for 14 orbits before making the re-entry
2 Shenzhou-6 (SZ-6) 2 12/10/2005 16/10/2005 Inner Mongolia first Chinese two-man mission
3 Shenzhou-7 (SZ-7) 3 25/09/2008 28/09/2008 Inner Mongolia first Chinese three-man mission
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