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China sent three astronauts on Sunday on a six-month long mission to oversee a pivotal period of construction of its space station, whose final modules are due to be launched in the coming months.

The space station, when completed by the year-end, will lay a significant milestone in China’s three-decades long manned space programme, first approved in 1992 and initially code-named “Project 921”. It will also flag the start of permanent Chinese habitation in space.

“I watched the launch of Shenzhou-5 when I was a primary student, and now we have Shenzhou-14,” Zanna Zhang, a social media developer, told Reuters. Shenzhou-14 mission commander Chen Dong, 43, and team mates Liu Yang, 43, and Cai Xuzhe, 46, all from China’s second cohort of astronauts, will live and work on the space station for about 180 days before returning to Earth in December with the arrival of the Shenzhou-15 crew.

When completed, the T-shaped space station can accommodate as many as 25 lab cabinets, each a micro lab that can be used to conduct experiments. Wentian will be equipped to support life science research while Mengtian will focus on microgravity experiments.

 

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