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China to send astronaut on year-long space mission as it eyes 2030 moon landing
The three-person crew includes Hong Kong’s first astronaut and will test year-long spaceflight health support as China advances its lunar plans.
- China will send an astronaut to its space station on Sunday for a year-long mission, the longest for the country, to study long-duration human physiology in space.
- One of the three astronauts aboard Shenzhou-23 will stay on the Tiangong space station for a year, one of the longest space missions ever but short of the 14-1/2 month record set by a Russian cosmonaut in 1995.
- China's Shenzhou missions aim to boost the country's plans to establish a permanent base on the moon by 2035 with Russia, as part of an accelerating space race with the U.S.
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Three Chinese astronauts departed by rocket on Sunday for the Chinese Tiangong Space Station. One of the crew members is scheduled to stay there for a year, which is a first for the country.
·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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The spaceship of the Shenzhou-23 mission took off successfully this Sunday to the Chinese space station Tiangong.
Three new astronauts to the Chinese space station "Tiangong" have started with "Shenzhou 23". For the first time, a crew member will remain in space for a whole year.
China wants to send three astronauts to its space station today.
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This mission is part of Beijing's goal to land astronauts on the Moon before 2030, a race that the United States is also pursuing with its Artemis program.
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