Before selection, Zhang Zhiyuan served as a pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force and reached the rank of colonel.

Wu Fei is the flight engineer for Shenzhou-21 and is making his first trip to space.

Zhu Yangzhu previously worked as an associate professor of aerospace engineering in the People's Liberation Army and reached the rank of colonel.

Zhu Yangzhu is the commander of Shenzhou-23 and is flying his second spaceflight after Shenzhou-16.

Shenzhou-23 delivered Zhu Yangzhu, Li Jiaying, and Zhang Zhiyuan to Tiangong on May 25.

Li Jiaying holds a PhD in computational and information science-related subjects.

The long-duration Shenzhou-23 stay will also enable a brief visit by a Pakistani astronaut toward the end of the year.

The Shenzhou-23 crew is expected to support more than 100 experiments over the next six months.

Li Jiaying is the mission specialist for Shenzhou-23 and is flying in space for the first time.

Li Jiaying was selected as a fourth-batch taikonaut in 2024 and is from Hong Kong.

Shenzhou-22 was expected to land at the Dongfeng landing zone at around 1200 UTC on 2026-05-29.

NASA’s Logistics Management Division was not used by Artemis programs or projects at the time of the 2023 Office of Inspector General report.

NASA’s Phase One of the Moon Base program targets delivery of approximately four metric tons of cargo to the lunar south pole surface before 2029.

NASA’s Phase Three of the Moon Base program includes the Italian Space Agency’s Multi-purpose Habitats, the Canadian Space Agency’s Lunar Utility Vehicle, and cargo-capable human landing systems.

Lockheed Martin holds the lead contract for the Orion spacecraft.

NASA committed approximately $10 billion to Phase One of the Moon Base program.

NASA awarded Firefly Aerospace a $75 million subcontract through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for lunar drone deployment on the MoonFall mission.

NASA awarded Astrolab and Lunar Outpost $220 million each for Lunar Terrain Vehicle design and delivery.

NASA’s Phase One of the Moon Base program encompasses 25 launches and 21 landings.

NASA’s Moon Base program is structured in three phases: Phase One through 2029, Phase Two from 2029 to 2032, and Phase Three beginning in 2032.

NASA awarded Blue Origin a $234 million per-unit delivery contract for the Blue Moon Mark 1 lander.

JAXA’s pressurized rover is a confirmed contribution to NASA’s Phase Two of the Moon Base program.

NASA’s 2023 Office of Inspector General report found that Artemis programs were not tracking many prime contractors’ supply chain impacts.

NASA’s prime contractor network for the Moon Base program includes Aerojet Rocketdyne, Axiom Space, Bechtel, Blue Origin, Boeing, Amentum, Jacobs, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Space Systems, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX.

NASA’s Phase Two of the Moon Base program carries another $10 billion and uses only two active Requests for Information as of late May 2026.

NASA’s broader Moon Base supply chain spans more than 2,700 suppliers across 47 states.

NASA redirected approximately $20 billion over seven years toward a permanent lunar surface base on March 24, 2026.

NASA has two draft Requests for Proposals active against the Commercial Lunar Payload Services 1.0 IDIQ vehicle for Phase One.

NASA expects a Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services down-select in the second half of 2026.

Northrop Grumman built the solid rocket motor boosters for the Space Launch System.

NASA’s initial Holistic Agency Study found that supply chain issues are usually a surprise to the agency and that mitigation is reactive rather than proactive.

Boeing led production of the Space Launch System core stage.

NASA’s 2023 Office of Inspector General report found that the agency lacked visibility into its critical suppliers across many Artemis programs and projects.

Viasat Inc. plans to make partner announcements for its Equatys joint venture with Space42.

Viasat Inc. will seek a European Union extension of its European Aviation Network.

The hyperspectral maritime use case extracted vessel position, orientation, beam, and size from onboard processed imagery.

European defence procurement emphasizes explainability, lock-down, and auditability for AI systems in space defense applications.

Spaceflux CEO Dr. Marco Rocchetto said the company uses pattern detection in noisy sensor data, predictive behavioural modelling, and an agentic decision tree for space domain awareness applications.

Ubotica Technologies’ Dr. Aubrey Dunne is its Chief Technology Officer.

Spaceflux has been the UK government’s preferred space domain awareness provider since 2023.

Ubotica Technologies demonstrated a hyperspectral maritime use case involving onboard AI tiling of a two-gigabyte raw image into vessel intelligence in about ninety seconds over an intersatellite link and about ten minutes end to end through ground systems.

D-Orbit UK uses in-orbit compute to extract intelligence from Earth observation data and then delete the raw data instead of storing it.

Cognitive Space CEO Guy de Carufel said European defence automation faces a risk tradeoff in high-speed missile-defense decision making.

Ubotica Technologies is a Dublin-based AI-on-orbit company whose accelerator boards are flying on multiple European Earth observation constellations.

Viney Dhiri is Head of the Space Cloud Business Unit at D-Orbit UK.

Chief of Space Operations General Chance Saltzman, Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force John Bentivegna, and Brigadier General Nick Hague participated in a roundtable at Western Kentucky University.

Nick Hague is the Space Force Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations and a former NASA astronaut.

AstroX Corporation and JAXA conducted ground tests on a suspended attitude-control system for use as an aerostatic balloon platform.

AstroX Corporation and JAXA started a joint demonstration activity to conduct a stratospheric flight test using JAXA’s aerostatic balloon system.

The demonstrated technology will be reflected in AstroX Corporation’s package design to support use in Rockoon launches, stratospheric platforms, and construction cranes.