The Shenzhou 14 crew will spend six months on the Tiangong station and will oversee the addition of two laboratory modules to join the main Tianhe living space that was launched in April 2021.
China has launched a new three-person mission to complete assembly work on its permanent orbiting space station.The Shenzhou 14 crew includes two experienced taikonauts and one making his first flight to orbitTheir spaceship took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on the edge of the Gobi Desert
Their spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on the edge of the Gobi Desert at 10:44am local time atop the crewed space flight program's workhorse Long March 2F rocket. The launch was broadcast live on state television, indicating a rising level of confidence in the capabilities of the space program, which has been promoted as a sign of China's technological progress and global influence.
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