China sends astronauts to Chinese space station for six-month stay

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China on Thursday sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited space station for a six-month stay, in a regular rotation of Chinese astronauts onboard the 'Tiangong' orbiting high above the Earth's atmosphere.

Item 1 of 2 A Long March-2F carrier rocket carrying the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft takes off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for a crewed mission to China's Tiangong space station, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China April 25, 2024. China Daily via REUTERSA Long March-2F carrier rocket carrying the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft takes off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for a crewed mission to China's Tiangong space station, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China April 25, 2024.

Leading the six-month mission was 43-year-old Ye Guangfu, who last went to Tiangong, or "Heavenly Palace" in Chinese, in October 2021 in China's second crewed mission to the station. China has been launching two crewed missions to Tiangong per year since 2021 when construction of the outpost began, with the Shenzhou-18 being the seventh.

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