Reporting for duty: (From left) Li Guangsu, Ye and Li Cong attending a press conference at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. — AFP
China will send a fresh crew to its Tiangong space station, Beijing’s Manned Space Agency announced, the latest mission in a programme that aims to send astronauts to the moon by 2030.
The Shenzhou-18 mission – crewed by three astronauts – is scheduled to take off at 8.59pm today from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Beijing announced yesterday.
