China launches shenzhou 11
Monday china
launched its longest manned space mission, sending two astronauts into orbit to
spend a month aboard a space laboratory that is part of plan to have permanent
manned space station in service around 2022 . the shenzhou blasted off on long
march rocket at 7:00 am from the remote launch sit in jiuquan in the Gobi
desert, in images carried live on state television.
Astronauts jingo
harping and chin dong will take two days to reach the tiangong -2 , or “Heavenly
palace -2” which was launched in September, it will be the longest sty in space
by Chinese astronauts, state media reported
They will
remain on board for 30 days to conduct
test on spacecraft related technologies and scientific and engineering
experiments
The mission
is part of Chinese efforts to develop a permanent space station. Chinese officials
have indicated that they expect this station, consisting of several modules but
smaller then the international space station , to be completed by the early 2020s
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