On Wednesday, three Chinese astronauts successfully arrived to China’s domestically built, permanently manned space station, where they will carry out dozens of scientific experiments, some of which will be relevant to building human dwellings.
At 4:27 a.m. on Wednesday, the three crew members—including the crew chief, Cai Yuzhe, 48—along with Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze, all 34, launched into space on board the spacecraft Shenzhou-19.
Chinese media said that the spacecraft and its crew blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China on a Long March-2F rocket.
“86 space science experiments will be conducted in the areas of space life sciences, microgravity physics, materials, medicine, and new technologies during the Shenzhou-19 flight,” said Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
