They are the second crew to move into China's Tiangong space station, which was launched last April. The first crew stayed three months.
BEIJING — Chinese astronauts began Saturday their six-month mission on China's first permanent space station, after successfully docking aboard their spacecraft.
The space travelers' Shenzhou-13 spacecraft was launched by a Long March-2F rocket at 12:23 a.m. Saturday and docked with the Tianhe core module of the space station at 6:56 a.m. The mission's launch was seen off by a military band and supporters singing “Ode to the Motherland,” underscoring national pride in the space program, which has advanced rapidly in recent years.
China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday renewed its commitment to cooperation with other nations in the peaceful use of space.
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