This book offers essential information on China's human spacecraft technologies, reviewing their evolution from theoretical and engineering perspectives. It discusses topics such as the design of manned spaceships, cargo spacecraft, space laboratories, space stations and manned lunar and Mars detection spacecraft. It also addresses various key technologies, e.g. for manned rendezvous, docking and reentry. The book is chiefly intended for researchers, graduate students and professionals in the fields of aerospace engineering, control, electronics & electrical engineering, and related areas.

Professor Hong Yang, academician of the International Academy of Astronautics, is the Chief Designer of the China Space Station and has previously served as Chief Designer of the Tiangong-1 Space Lab and Vice Chief Designer of Manned Spacecraft. With a focus on system design and engineering management, he has won several prizes, such as the National Science and Technology Progress prize and Military Science and Technology Progress prize. He has published 43 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings.

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