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China launches new crew to its space station as it seeks to expand exploration

China launched a new three-person crew to its orbiting space station early Wednesday as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space

Via AP news wire
Tuesday 29 October 2024 16:29

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China launched a new three-person crew to its orbiting space station early Wednesday as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space.

The team of two men and one woman traveling on the Shenzhou-19 spaceship will replace the astronauts who have lived on the Tiangong space station for the last six months. They are expected to stay until April or May of next year.

The new mission commander, Cai Xuzhe, went to space in the Shenzhou-14 mission in 2022, while the other two, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze, are first-time space travelers, born in the 1990s.

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