Chinese astronauts filmmusic video in space to celebrate Lunar Original Year 2026

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Happy Lunar Original Year 2026!

China’s Shenzhou 21 crew rang in the Year of the Horse with a intrepid social gathering aboard the nation’s Tiangong Space Set up of dwelling this week. The three astronauts (or “taikonauts,” a time duration that borrows from the Mandarin notice for space, (太空), or “taikong”) celebrated with a distinct feast, a social gathering and extinct calligraphy. But the crew went one step extra this yr, filming a nil-gravity music video that celebrates the nation’s many most up-to-date spaceflight achievements  — and it be a banger.

Shenzhou 21 commander Zhang Lu sings while floating in zero gravity aboard China’s Tiangong Space Set up of dwelling. (Image credit rating: CCTV+)

The tune in the music video is sung by Shenzhou 21 commander Zhang Lu and capabilities the refrain “let the five-star red flag fly high in space.” It is sung over a montage of most up-to-date Chinese rocket launches, spacecraft docking at Tiangong, spacewalks and science experiments performed on the orbital laboratory.

The crew of China’s Shenzhou 21 mission indicate extinct Chinese calligraphy of the character 福, meaning “good fortune” or “blessing.” (Image credit rating: CCTV+)

Other than the music video, the three taikonauts beamed down greetings. Shenzhou 21 flight engineer Wu Fei, celebrating his first spaceflight, sent a Lunar Original Year message to of us on Earth beneath.

“The Year of the Horse calls for the vigor of a galloping steed. Let us keep striving for our dreams and working for happiness,” Wu acknowledged, according to Xinhua. “I wish you a safe and smooth journey ahead, and a life that gets better and better.”

Lunar Original Year has been celebrated for thousands of years, predominately in the direction of Asia. During this holiday season, which lasts until the night of the first tubby moon to follow the holiday (falling on on March 3 this yr), families and family individuals accumulate together to alternate items, eat extinct holiday meals and pay respects to their ancestors.

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Many areas additionally celebrate Lunar Original Year with fireworks and parades featuring colourful dancers dressed as dragons or lions.

2026 welcomes in the Year of the Horse, the seventh animal in the twelve-yr cycle of animals in the Chinese zodiac. Every yr in the cycle is believed to signify traits of these animals, and of us born in these years are believed by some to signify the respective animal’s traits.

According to ChineseNewYear.procure, the horse represents self assurance and responsibility, and a fierce independence go. Of us born in the Year of the Horse are believed to be match and intelligent, seeking out responsibilities that require physical and psychological distress.

A huge Horse zodiac installation in Pudong, Shanghai, China, on Feb. 10, 2026, forward of the Lunar Original Year. (Image credit rating: Ying Tang/NurPhoto by ability of Getty Photography)

China’s space agency and the Shenzhou 21 crew possess quite so much of reason to celebrate. Unhurried closing yr, the three astronauts were left “stranded” aboard Tiangong without a make a choice up gallop dwelling after a share of suspected space debris struck one in every of the 2 spacecraft docked at the residence. The Shenzhou 21 crew had correct arrived to relieve the outdated crew, Shenzhou 20.

The return capsule of the Shenzhou-21 spaceship, carrying the Shenzhou-20 astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, touches down at the Dongfeng landing converse on Nov. 14, 2025 in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Discipline of China. (Image credit rating:  VCG/VCG by ability of Getty Photography)

Shenzhou 20 finally came down on Shenzhou 21’s spacecraft, and China’s space agency launched an uncrewed capsule up to Tiangong to back as a lifeboat for the three Shenzhou 21 taikonauts, ending the nearly 10-day emergency.

Brett is peculiar about emerging aerospace technologies, replacement inaugurate ideas, militia space tendencies and uncrewed plane programs. Brett’s work has seemed on Scientific American, The Warfare Zone, Standard Science, the History Channel, Science Discovery and extra. Brett has degrees from Clemson University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In his free time, Brett enjoys skywatching in the direction of the dark skies of the Appalachian mountains.

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