(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
China on Sunday launched the crewed spaceship Shenzhou-14,
sending three astronauts to its space station combination for a
six-month mission, Trend reports citing Xinhua .
The trio will cooperate with the ground team to complete the
assembly and construction of the Tiangong space station, developing
it from a single-module structure into a national space laboratory
with three modules -- the core module Tianhe and two lab modules
Wentian and Mengtian.
The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, was lift off
from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China,
according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
The crew will work with the ground team to complete the
rendezvous, docking and transposition of the two lab modules with
the core module, said Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the CMSA, at
a press conference Saturday.
The Tianhe core module was launched in April 2021, and the
Wentian lab module is set to be launched in July and Mengtian in
October.
The Shenzhou-14 crew will also witness, during their stay in
orbit, the Tianzhou-5 cargo craft and Shenzhou-15 crewed spaceship
dock with the core module. Then, they will live and work together
with the Shenzhou-15 crew for multiple days before returning back
to Earth in December.
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