Beihang University professor Gui Haichao is the first Chinese civilian sent into space. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The world’s second-largest economy has invested billions of dollars in its military-run space programmeThe Shenzhou-16 crew took off atop a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China at 9.31am, AFP journalists and state TV showed.
Once in orbit, the Shenzhou-16 will dock at the space station’s Tianhe core module, before the crew meet three colleagues from the previous manned Shenzhou-15 flight, who have been at the space station for six months and will return to Earth in the coming days. One expert told AFP that Tuesday’s flight represented “a regular crew rotation flight as one crew hands over to another”, but even that was significant.
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