Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center,
The launch was successfully carried out from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest
A Long March 2F rocket propelled Shenzhou-16 into space, carrying the three-member crew, which will spend approximately five months in
The new crew comprises a veteran with four missions, Jing Haipeng, and two first timers, Zhu Yangzhu and
The three taikonauts - as astronauts are called in
Sources at the launch center said that Shenzhou-16 was expected to take six to seven hours to reach the space station.
The Shenzhou-16 will be the seventh spacecraft to visit
The astronauts aboard will spend a few days with the crew that has been manning the space station for the last six months and who arrived at the station aboard the Shenzhou-15 for the first in-orbit crew handover at the
By 2024,
In recent years, the Chinese space program has achieved successes such as landing the Chang'e 4 probe on the hidden side of the Moon - the first time it has been achieved - and reaching Mars for the first time, becoming the third country to do so after the US and the former
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