A new crew of three Chinese astronauts including the country's only woman spaceflight engineer entered the Tiangong space station following an early morning launch into orbit.
Three Chinese astronauts including the country's only woman spaceflight engineer entered the Tiangong space station Wednesday morning following an early morning launch into orbit. The Shenzhou-19 mission took off with its trio of space explorers from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, state news agency Xinhua and state broadcaster CCTV reported. Among the crew is Wang Haoze, 34, the spaceflight engineer, according to the China Manned Space Agency .
concerns over the Chinese Communist Party's military arm's overall control over the space program, The Associated Press points out, adding that Beijing's moon program is part of a growing rivalry with the U.S. and others, Japan and India among them.China was the third nation to put humans in orbit and has landed robotic rovers on Mars and the moon. Crewed by teams of three astronauts that are rotated every six months, the Tiangong space station is the program's crown jewel.
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