Yesterday, China sent a spacecraft Shenzhou-15 carrying three astronauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu to its space station Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace”) for the first in-orbit crew rotation in Chinese space history.
The trio will take over from the Shenzhou-14 crew who arrived in early June. The latter are expected to return to Earth in early December after a one-week handover that will also establish the station’s ability to temporarily sustain six astronauts, another record for China’s space program.
Shenzhou-15 is the last of 11 missions, including three crewed missions, needed to assemble the Tiangong, as the multi-module station is known in Chinese. The space outpost took on its current “T” shape in November with the arrival of the last of three cylindrical modules.
Please check out CGTN’s 7:13-long video “Exploring China's Tiangong Space Station”:
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