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A Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou XVIII spacecraft with three astronauts aboard blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China at 8:59 pm on Thursday. It is Chinas first manned mission ever launched in April, which is typically the windiest and sandiest month at the launch center, so the meteorological staff analyzed April wind speed data from the past 10 years and mapped out multiple contingency (偶发事件) plans for the launch.

The Shenzhou XVIII crew members are Senior Colonel Ye Guangfu, who is the mission commander, Colonel Li Cong and Colonel Li Guangsu. After their peers from the Shenzhou XVII mission hand over the massive orbital outpost, the Shenzhou XVII crew will return to the Dongfeng landing site on Tuesday.

Lin Xiqiang, the China Manned Space Agency deputy director, said the Shenzhou XVIII crew will use the scientific experiment cabinets and extravehicular payloads to carry out more than 90 experiments involving microgravity, material science, life science, medicine and technology. Besides conducting China’s first research on a self-cycling aquatic (水生的) ecosystem, consisting of goldfish algae and zebrafish in orbit, the crew will also carry out the world’s first in-orbit stem cell study to explore plants’ evolutionary adaptation to gravity and provide theoretical support for space crops, he added.

Yang Liwei is China’s first astronaut in space and now one of the chief planners of the nation’s manned space program. “It’s such a pleasure to see the young astronauts can now carry out manned space missions and take on the heavy responsibilities. I am sure the Shenzhou XVIII crew will do well, although the mission has become more complicated and tougher.” Yang said. Since he completed the Shenzhou V mission in 2003, “China’s manned space programs have made steady and solid progress according to the plan. Currently, the operation of the space station has been normalized.” Yang said at the launch center on Wednesday afternoon. 

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