China to send 3 male astronauts for a 3-month stay in its new space station

Beijing, May 31: In a major development, the Chinese space agency China National Space Administration on Monday announced that they are going to send the three male astronauts to its space station next month. Yang Liwei, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office and the country's first astronaut, said that the three astronauts are getting ready to travel by manned spacecraft Shenzhou-12 in June to dock with Tianhe and stay there for three months.

 

 

According to the state-run space agency, the three astronauts of the Shenzhou-12 mission will stay in space for three months, during which they will conduct tasks, including repair and maintenance, appliance switch, and scientific tasks. They will take the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft to the space station core cabin in June.

 

 

 

 

It made the announcement a day after the space agency successfully launched cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-2 on Saturday, carrying supplies, equipment, and propellant which had successfully docked with the space station core module Tianhe, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

 

 

 

Combined with Tianhe, Tianzhou-2 will replenish Tianhe's propellant, it said.

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