News > China set to send three astronauts on longest crewed mission yet
China set to send three astronauts on longest crewed mission yet
The Hindu | 14/10/2021 04:16 PM | Click to read full article
China is preparing to send three astronauts to live on its space station for six months. It will be China's longest-ever crewed space mission and set a record for the most time spent in space by Chinese astronauts.
The Shenzhou-13 spaceship is expected to be launched into space on a Long March-2F rocket early Saturday morning from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China.
