The flight is the fourth keeping the Chinese space station permanently staffed with rotating crews of taikonauts.
China launched a fresh three-man crew to the Tiangong space station Thursday morning to replace three other 'taikonauts' who are wrapping up a six-month stay in orbit.Strapped into their Shenzhou 17 ferry ship atop a Long March 2F rocket, commander Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, 850 miles west of Beijing, at 11:14 a.m. local time.
is counting on commercial space stations operated by private companies to provide research opportunities in Earth orbit while the U.S. agency pursues a return to the moon later this decade.China plans to launch its own taikonauts to the moon starting in 2030, fueling the latest chapter in an ongoing superpower space race.
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