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China will send three astronauts into space aboard the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft on Sunday

MADRID, 4 Jun.

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China will send three astronauts into space aboard the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft on Sunday

MADRID, 4 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

China will send three astronauts into space this Sunday, June 5, to work on the final phase of the construction of the first national space station, the Tiangong station, the China Space Agency (CMSA) reported on Saturday.

A Long March-2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft will carry astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gobi Desert into space.

The trip, which is scheduled to take off at 10:44 a.m. (04:00 a.m. in Spain), will serve to convert the Chinese space station into a space laboratory, according to the deputy director of the CMSA, Lin Xiqiang.

Once in orbit, the spacecraft will adopt rapid automatic rendezvous and docking with the Tianhe space station core module radial port, forming a complex with Tianhe, as well as the Tianzhou-3 and Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft, as detailed by Xiqiang.

The crews of the Shenzhou-14 mission will spend six months on their space station, and for the first time they will rotate in orbit to carry out uninterrupted manned residence, so the astronauts residing on their station will rotate, as detailed in a press conference Huang Weifen, chief designer of China's manned space program astronaut system, quoted by Xinhua.

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