Pakistani Astronaut to Join China's Shenzhou-24 Mission, First Foreign National on Chinese Space Station

Beijing. A Pakistani astronaut will participate in China's 'Shenzhou-24' spacecraft crew. With this, he will become the first foreign national to reach China's space station.

According to China's state news agency Xinhua, the China Manned Space Agency has stated that the Pakistani astronaut will complete a short-term flight in the space capsule. After that, he will return to Earth via the 'Shenzhou-23' spacecraft. However, the date of the flight has not been made public.