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BEIJING (Sputnik) - China launched Shenzhou 15 manned spacecraft on Tuesday from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in northwestern Gansu Province, it will take a crew of... 29.11.2022, Sputnik International

The crew of the Shenzhou-15 will overlap for several days with the existing 3-member crew of the Tiangong station, who will then return to Earth after their six-month mission.

China launched the Shenzhou-15 spacecraft on Tuesday carrying three astronauts to its space station, where they will complete the country's first-ever crew

The mission will see the first in-orbit crew handover on the new Tiangong space station.

China successfully launched the Shenzhou-15 manned spacecraft via a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Tuesday, which marked the completion, within two years, of all 11 space launch missions scheduled at the construction stage for the countrys first permanent space station.

Chinas Shenzhou-15 spaceship atop the Long March-2F Y15 carrier rocket took off with three astronauts for the countrys under-construction space station. 

The team will complete China’s first-ever crew handover in orbit on board the Tiangong space station, state media says.

Three Chinese astronauts docked early Wednesday with their countrys space station, where they will overlap for several days with the three-member crew already onboard and expand the facility to its maximum size.

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China to launch Shenzhou-15 manned spaceship on Nov. 29-