US EditionChina says it’s ready to launch the next crew to its orbiting space station early Wednesday
- Three Chinese astronauts, including the only woman spaceflight engineer, launched on a mission to the Tiangong space station on October 30.
- The team will perform experiments aiming for a lunar base by 2030, and will return in late April or early May 2025.
- The mission focuses on accumulating experience and involves testing materials that replicate lunar soil for future construction.
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China sends 3 astronauts to Tiangong space station on Shenzhou-19 mission
Three Chinese astronauts including the country's only woman spaceflight engineer entered the Tiangong space station on Wednesday (Oct 30) following an early morning launch into orbit. The Shenzhou-19 mission took off with its trio of space explorers at 4:27 am (2027 GMT Tuesday) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Xinhua and state broadcaster CCTV reported. Among the crew is Wang Haoze, 34, China's only woman spaceflight…
China successfully launched a new trio of astronauts on Wednesday, including the third Chinese woman in space, who arrived aboard its Tiangong station as part of the Shenzhou-19 mission, designed specifically to prepare for a manned journey. ..
The new team at the Tiangong space station — Sky Palace — expects further experiments and field operations.
China has sent a three-man team to its space station, and the Shenzhou-19 mission has 86 science experiments planned, one of which aims to find out how the "bricks" behave in space, which, years from now, would constructions must be built on the moon, writes Reuters. China has a complex program when it comes to exploring the moon and wants to test building "bricks" from the lunar soil and then end up erecting structures on the surface of the moo…
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