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Chinese astronauts begin three-month space mission
And blast off...the first crew for China鈥檚 new space station will spend three months aboard the Tianhe module some 380km above the Earth. So what is the aim of this mission? Jonathan McDowell is an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
(Picture: Chinese astronauts (L-R) Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng, and Liu Boming before the launch of the Long March-2F carrier rocket, 17 June 2021. Credit: EPA)
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