China launches crewed mission to complete space station construction

STORY: China launches crewed mission to complete space station construction DATELINE: June 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:47 LOCATION: JIUQUAN, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the launch of the crewed spaceship Shenzhou-14 STORYLINE: China on Sunday launched the crewed spaceship Shenzhou-14, sending three astronauts to its space station combination for a six-month mission. The trio will cooperate with the ground team to complete the assembly and construction of the Tiangong space station, developing it from a single-module structure into a national space laboratory with three modules -- the core module Tianhe and two lab modules Wentian and Mengtian. The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, was lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The crew will work with the ground team to complete the rendezvous, docking and transposition of the two lab modules with the core module, said Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the CMSA, at a press conference Saturda

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