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神舟十四号3人组已踏上“出差”6个月旅程

China successfully launched(发射) another manned mission(载人任务) to Tiangong space station. The astronauts lifted off on the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft at 10:44 a.m. June 5.

The team will live and work at the Tiangong Space Station’s Tianhe core module(核心舱) for about six months before returning to Earth. The crew(全体工作人员) includes Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe. Chen was aboard China’s Shenzhou-11 manned space mission in 2016 and held the record for longest stay in space by a Chinese astronaut. Liu, China’s first female astronaut, took part in the space mission Shenzhou-9. And this will be Cai’s first mission in space.

This is not the first crewed mission during the construction(建造) of the space station. The first crewed mission, a three-month stay by three other astronauts, was completed in September 2021. The second, Shenzhou-13, saw three astronauts spend six months in space for the first time. The team aboard Shenzhou-14 will continue construction work for six months. In the second half of the mission, the Shenzhou-15 crew will arrive at the space station. The Shenzhou-14 and 15 crews are going to meet inside Tiangong and work together for a short period before Chen’s crew returns to Earth. That will bring the number of Chinese astronauts in space at the same time to a record six.