World News | China Launches Crewed Mission to Complete Space Station Construction
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Beijing/ China on Sunday launched three astronauts on a six-month mission to complete the construction of the country's space station currently orbiting the earth.
Beijing/Jiuquan Jun 5 (PTI) China on Sunday launched three astronauts on a six-month mission to complete the construction of the country's space station currently orbiting the earth.
The Shenzhou-14 spacecraft carrying astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe, was lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
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The trio will cooperate with the ground team to complete the assembly and construction of the Tiangong space station, developing it from a single-module structure into a national space laboratory with three modules -- the core module Tianhe and two lab modules Wentian and Mengtian.
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