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An employee of the China Manned Space Agency takes photos in front of a board showing the countrys astronauts after a pre-launch press conference for the Shenzhou-16 mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on May 29, 2023 in Jiuquan, China. The astronauts will travel on the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft carried by a Long March-2F rocket to Chinas Tiangong Space Station from the Gobi Desert on May 30 and will stay for six months, relieving the crew that arrived there late in 2022. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
CHINA MOON BASE

China to send its first civilian into space on Tuesday

Teams of astronauts will do scientific experiments and test new technologies as part of the country’s ‘space dream’

  • Ludovic Ehret
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