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...
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.
It will mark its latest milestone on Thursday, when the Shenzhou-20 mission will ferry a team of three astronauts to China’s self-built Tiangong space station. The other two crew members — 40-year-old former air force pilot Chen Zhongrui, and 35-year-old former space technology engineer Wang Jie — will be embarking on their first space flight.
The crew will work on Tiangong for six months, carrying out experiments in physics and life sciences and installing protective equipment against space debris. Three astronauts currently aboard Tiangong are scheduled to return to Earth on April 29 after completing handover procedures. China’s space programme is the third to put humans in orbit and has also landed robotic rovers on Mars and the Moon as it seeks parity with the world’s two most established celestial powers, the United States and Russia.
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