China to launch crewed mission tomorrow

• China to launch Shenzhou-14 spacecraft carrying three astronauts on Sunday.
• The spacecraft will take them to the Chinese space station’s core module, where they will work and live for six months.
• China expects to complete the space station by the end of the year.

China will launch a spaceship on Sunday carrying three astronauts to the incomplete Chinese space station’s core module, where they will work and reside for six months as building progresses.

As per a China Manned Space Agency official, a Long March-2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft will launch from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gansu’s northern province at 10:44 a.m. local time (02:44 GMT) on Sunday.

On board Shenzhou, which means “Divine Vessel” in Chinese, mission commander Chen Dong will be joined by Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe.

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Shenzhou-14 will be the third of four crewed missions required to complete the space station by the end of the year and the seventh of a total of 11 missions.

With the launch of Tianhe, the first and largest of the station’s 3 sections, China began construction of its three-module spaceship in April 2021.

Once the T-shaped space station is built, Tianhe, which is a little larger than a metro bus, will serve as the living quarters for visiting astronauts.

The last two modules, the laboratory cabins Wentian and Mengtian, will be launched in July and October, respectively, following Shenzhou-14.

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