Tomorrow, China will launch a spacecraft that will take three astronauts to the core of China’s unfinished space station, where they will work and live for six months as construction of the station enters its final stages.

A China Manned Space Agency spokesman said at a press conference today that the launch of the Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou 14 spacecraft was planned from the Jiuquan Space Center in China’s northwestern province. Gansu, open at 10:44 local time.

Shenzhou-14 will be the third of four manned missions and the seventh of 11 missions needed to complete the space station by the end of the year.

China began construction of the three-unit station in April 2021 with the launch of Tianhe, the first and largest of the three-unit station. After the Shenzhou-14 mission, the remaining two units will be launched in July and October.