China sends two astronauts on country’s longest space mission
OCT 17, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.0210154
New York Times : Early Monday morning local time, China’s space agency launched two astronauts aboard the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft on a mission to dock with the Tiangong-2 space lab, which the agency put into orbit last month. The astronauts are scheduled to spend 30 days aboard the orbital lab, which will more than double the duration of the previous longest mission by a Chinese astronaut. The mission is the sixth crewed mission by China. Aboard Tiangong-2, astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong will test computers and station equipment and conduct other experiments. China hopes to launch a longer-lived station, Tianhe-1, in 2018.
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