Out of this world: (From right) Astronauts Cai, Song and Wang waving to the crowd during a departure ceremony ahead of the launch of the Shenzhou-19 space mission in the Gobi desert, northwest China. — AFP
Three Chinese astronauts including the country’s only woman spaceflight engineer entered the Tiangong space station on Wednesday following an early morning launch into orbit.
The Shenzhou-19 mission took off with its trio of space explorers at 4.27am local time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Xinhua and state broadcaster CCTV reported.
