US EditionChina to launch new crewed mission into space this week
- China will send a team of three astronauts on the Shenzhou-20 mission to the Tiangong space station on Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency .
- The crew includes Chen Dong, a veteran astronaut, and two first-time astronauts, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, according to the CMSA.
- They will conduct experiments in physics and life sciences during their likely six-month stay on Tiangong, as stated by the CMSA.
- China plans to send a crewed mission to the Moon by the end of the decade, aiming to achieve what President Xi Jinping describes as the Chinese people's 'space dream.
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Malay Mail
MalaysiajournalShenzhou-20: China sends astronauts to Tiangong space station in latest step towards Moon mission
BEIJING, April 24 — China will send a new team of astronauts to its space station on Thursday as it marches towards its ambition of becoming a space power to rival the dominance of the United States. Beijing has pumped billions of dollars into its space programme in recent years in an effort to achieve what President Xi Jinping describes as the Chinese people’s “space dream”. The world’s second-largest economy has bold plans to send a crewed mis…
Channel News Asia
Chinese astronauts set to blast off for space station
JIUQUAN: China will send a new team of astronauts to its space station on Thursday (Apr 24) as it marches towards its ambition of becoming a space power to rival the dominance of the United States. Be
Three Chinese spacemen are scheduled to embark today on a half-year mission at Tiangong Space Station. The Shenzhou-20 mission will take off from the Gobi Desert in northwestern China in the afternoon, the Manned Space Administration announced.
Beijing announced Wednesday, April 23rd the imminent launch of the Shenzhou-20 mission, which will send a crew of three astronauts to the Chinese space station Tiangong. They will replace the three Taikonauts present since last October, in a rotation now well oiled. The mission, which may seem to be a simple formality, says much of the ambition and increasing maturity of the Chinese space program.
The most experienced taikonaut has spent more than 200 days in space so far.
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