Three Chinese astronauts before launch. / AFP
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The Chinese government has put into orbit on Tuesday a new manned space mission aboard the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft from the Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu province (northwest) , as reported by the official Xinhua news agency.
launch viewer has had a luxury, the new president, Xi Jinping, who has previously had occasion to speak with the three astronauts, two men and a woman.
Shenzhou-10 has been put into orbit at 17:38 am and board were two men Nie Haisheng and Zhang Xiaoguang, and a woman, Wang Yaping. The latter comes from a farming family and is the second woman to participate in a space mission.
Shenzhou-10 will spend 15 days in space and carried out two docking tests with orbiter Tiangong-1 , launched into space in 2011, automatic and manual, as they advance the Chinese authorities yesterday. Besides medical and technical examinations, the three astronauts will a class via videoconference to students in the land, which will show the conditions of weightlessness.
The mission aims to further test docking techniques and support to the permanence of the astronauts in space as well as test new technologies related to the construction of the space station. Also, food will improve astronauts and waste processing facilities. China advances in the technology domain in orbit in order to build and operate an entire space station by 2020.
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