Meet the astronauts set to blast off on first Chinese space station mission

Source: China – South China Morning PostChina has chosen three veteran astronauts with humble beginnings for a three-month mission to its first space station.The men are expected travel into orbit on Thursday morning aboard the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and will live on the Tianhe – the first module of the Tiangong space station – where they will conduct tests, maintenance and spacewalks.Commander of the mission is Nie Haisheng, who will be China’s oldest astronaut in space at the age of 56. The two-time space traveller said he was…Read More

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