China introduced the astronaut team it will send to its own space station

China just lately launched the core module of the space station, which will serve for 15 years.

The cargo resupply spacecraft Tianzhou-2 was then launched and built-in into the core module.

China plans to launch 3 astronauts to the station with the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft for the subsequent part of the everlasting space station building course of, which is scheduled to take 2 years.

ASTRONAUT TEAM INTRODUCED

Yang Livey, Vice President of the China Manned Space Program Company (CMSA), introduced to the public the 3-person team to be despatched to orbit at a press convention.

It’s reported that astronauts Nie Haishing, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo will participate in the first manned expedition to the space station.

Nie, who will take command of the expedition, beforehand took half in “Shincou-6”, which traversed the earth’s orbit in 2005, and “Shincou-10”, which anchored to the experimental space laboratory module Tiengong-1 in 2013. Nie was given the title of “hero astronaut” after his second space mission.

Astronaut Liu beforehand took half in the “Shincou-7” mission, the place Chinese language astronauts made the first spacewalk.

Tang, who will embark on a space mission for the first time, joined the second-generation group of Chinese language astronauts in 2010.

LAUNCH MISSION TOMORROW MORNING

The space shuttle carrying the astronauts will be launched tomorrow at 09:22 native time.

China is working to set up its own space station by 2022, as the USA prohibits cooperation in the area of space exploration and prevents its participation in the Worldwide Space Station (ISS) program.

The station, which will encompass a core module, two laboratory modules and a space telescope, will be considered one of China’s greatest trump playing cards in space.

With the Worldwide Space Station’s mandate ending in 2024, the China Space Station will be the solely space station in orbit.