BEIJING, April 25 — China today sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited space station for a six-month stay, in a regular rotation of Chinese astronauts onboard the...
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A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft, is seen encased in a shield on the launch pad a day before the launch of the mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert April 24, 2024. — AFP picBEIJING, April 25 — China today sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited space station for a six-month stay, in a regular rotation of Chinese astronauts onboard the “Tiangong” orbiting high above the Earth’s atmosphere.
Leading the six-month mission was 43-year-old Ye Guangfu, who last went to Tiangong, or “Heavenly Palace” in Chinese, in October 2021 in China’s second crewed mission to the station.Accompanying him this time were Li Cong, 34, and Li Guangsu, 36, both in space for the first time and hailing from the latest batch of astronauts on China’s spaceflight programme.
Each crew has stayed for around six months, conducting space walks as well as scientific experiments inside the station’s low-gravity environment.
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