Tag: Jing Haipeng
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Chinese spacecraft poised for launch with two astronauts
Astronauts Jing Haipeng (left) and Chen Dong (right) will fly in space for 33 days aboard Shenzhou 11. They were introduced to the media early Sunday. Credit: Xinhua China is gearing up to launch two astronauts on a month-long expedition to the country’s new orbiting space lab module Sunday. Officials lifted a news blackout on…
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Key events during Shenzhou 11’s ascent to orbit
It will take less than 10 minutes for a Long March 2F rocket to send two astronauts inside the Shenzhou 11 space capsule on course toward a docking with China’s Tiangong 2 space lab. The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) rocket is scheduled to blast off from the Jiuquan space center in northwestern China’s Inner Mongolia territory at…
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Live coverage: Chinese space capsule docks with Tiangong 2
Live coverage of the flight of China’s Shenzhou 11 mission with two astronauts visiting the Tiangong 2 space lab. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. China’s CCTV English news channel will broadcast major events during Shenzhou 11.