China is preparing to launch a new three-person mission to complete work on its permanent space station in orbit, the Chinese space agency said on Saturday. THE The Shenzhou-14 manned mission will launch for a six-month stayto oversee the addition of two lab modules to connect with the Tianhe module, which was launched in April 2021.
The spacecraft will lift off on Sunday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi desert, according to the agency. THE China aims to complete station construction this yearwith the addition of those two lab modules in July and October.
EITHER The Chinese space program put the first astronaut into orbit in 2003, making China the third country to do so, using its own resources, after the former Soviet Union and the United States. The country has landed probes on the Moon and Mars.
China is excluded from the International Space Station due to US concerns that the space program is run by the Chinese Communist Party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army.
Source: Observadora
