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The China Manned Space Agency announced today that China will launch the manned spacecraft (Shenzhou 15) tomorrow from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwest of the country.
Xinhua news agency quoted Jie Zhiming, assistant director of the agency, as saying in a press conference today: The ship will carry three astronauts on board, who are (Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu) to carry out the space flight mission, and they will remain in orbit for about 6 months. The ship will be launched on a Long March 2F carrier rocket.
Ji pointed out that the ship will quickly and automatically dock with the front port of the core unit of the Tianhe space station after entering orbit, pointing out that the space station assembly is now in a stable state, with all equipment working well, and it is ready to rendezvous and dock with (Shenzhou 15), and to carry out replacement Crew members.
During their stay in orbit, the astronauts of the mission (Shenzhou 15) will receive the space cargo ship (Tianzhou 6), the manned spaceship (Shenzhou 16), and they will hand over work to the crew members of the ship (Shenzhou 16), and then return to Earth in May next year. according to the set plan.
The Shenzhou 14 crew members plan to complete the in-orbit handover mission within a week and return to the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia region.
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