China plans to complete space station with latest mission

BEIJING, 05 June 2022, (TON): The country’s China Manned Space Agency said “China is preparing to launch a new three-person mission to complete work on its permanent orbiting space station.”

The Shenzhou 14 crew will spend six months on the Tiangong station, during which they will oversee the addition of two laboratory modules to join the main Tianhe living space that was launched in April 2021.

The agency said “their spaceship is due to blast off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert on Sunday morning at around 10:44 a.m. local time.”

Commander Chen Dong and fellow astronauts Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe will assemble the three-module structure joining the existing Tianhe with Wentian and Mengtian, due to arrive in July and October.

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