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The spacecraft Shenzhou-17, or “Divine Vessel”, lifted off at 11:13 a.m. local time (0313 UTC/GMT) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, on the edges of China’s Gobi Desert.
The crew is the youngest ever to depart for the orbiting Tiangong space station as part of a China’s program to send its taikonauts to the lunar surface.
The six-month mission is headed by Tang Hongbo, 48, a former air force pilot. He was on the first crewed mission to the space station in 2021. Accompanying him were first-time space travelers Tang Shengjie, 33, and Jiang Xinlin, 35.
rc/ (AFP, Reuters)
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