China has sent its first astronauts to its new space station on the country’s longest crewed mission.
On Thursday June 17, Nie Haisheng (56), Liu Boming (54), and Tang Hongbo (45), were blasted off in a rocket to Tianhe space station
This is not Haisheng or Boming first time to space either, but for Hongbo his first final salute was an instrumental endeavor.
Director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office Yang Liwei said, after 10 years of research, they are now at the stage of in-orbit assembly.
The three Chinese astronauts are set to stay there for the next three months. They will be testing experiments and preparing for a sequence of moonwalks.
China's New Space Station: