Thursday, March 3, 2016

China Readies Next Human Space Mission for Launch This Year

China Readies Next Human Space Mission for Launch This YearTiangong-2 – in the third quarter of this year. The state-run Xinhua news agency has reported that the fourth quarter launch of Shenzhou-11 will carry two crewmembers that will dock with the Tiangong-2. The automated Tianzhou-1 ferry ship is to be rocketed into Earth orbit via a Long March 7 booster – a first test of which is slated in June, departing from China's new Wenchang satellite launch center in south China's Hainan Province.


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