China launches Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship for 5-month mission in space station
STORY: China launches Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship for 5-month mission in space station
DATELINE: May 30, 2023
LENGTH: 00:00:41
LOCATION: JIUQUAN, China
CATEGORY: SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
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China on Tuesday launched the Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship, sending three astronauts to its space station combination for a five-month mission.
The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
The Shenzhou-16 astronauts will conduct large-scale in-orbit tests and experiments in various fields as planned. They are expected to make high-level scientific achievements in the study of novel quantum phenomena, high-precision space time-frequency systems, the verification of general relativity, and the origin of life.
The crew, consisting of Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao, will witness the dockings of the Tianzhou-5 cargo craft and the Shenzhou-17 manned spac
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