The astronauts will take over from the crew of Shenzhou-15 and live in the Tiangong space station for about 180 days. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JIUQUAN, GANSU - China will be launching its first civilian and the country’s most experienced astronaut into space on Tuesday to mark the start of a new phase for Tiangong, its recently constructed space station.
The carrier will be docked onto Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace, where the astronauts will take over from the crew of Shenzhou-15 and live in the space station for an estimated 180 days. Revealing the identities of the three men at a press conference at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China Manned Space Agency deputy director Lin Xiqiang said the assortment of skills of the latest batch of astronauts will be instrumental in the new phase of the Tiangong space station, which he referred to as “application and development” after construction.
The two military men – Col Zhu is a trained aerospace engineer and a former associate professor at the Space Engineering University – will control the spacecraft and carry out experiments.
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