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China space station: Shenzhou-12 delivers first crew to Tianhe module
China has launched three astronauts into orbit to begin occupation of the country's new space station.
The three men - Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo - are to spend three months aboard the Tianhe module some 380km (236 miles) above the Earth.
It will be China's longest crewed space mission to date and the first in nearly five years.
The crew successfully docked with the space station just over seven hours after the launch.
China, Russia reveal roadmap for international moon base
Russia and China unveiled a roadmap for a joint International Lunar Research Station Wednesday to guide collaboration and development of the project.
Chinese and Russian space officials revealed the plans June 16 at the Global Space Exploration (GLEX) conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, stating that the ILRS has received the interest of a number of countries and organizations.
Also at Washington Post.
Previously: Rocket in Place to Send 3 Crew to Chinese Space Station
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Snotnose on Thursday June 17 2021, @08:40PM (7 children)
"successfully launched" can also be read as "no big assed chunk of metal with a bunch of toxic stuff hasn't landed on a village of folks making $50 a year". Combined with "don't mind us, that village won't exist tomorrow morning".
Relationship status: Available for curbside pickup.
(Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Thursday June 17 2021, @08:46PM (2 children)
What? They missed flyover country again?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 17 2021, @09:15PM (1 child)
In China it's "fall onto" country
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 17 2021, @11:21PM
Dump onto, more accurate.
“Give me your garbage, your plastics,
Your rusted masses yearning to leach lead,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the late model iPods, to me,
I lift my leg and give you a golden shower!”
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday June 17 2021, @09:22PM
Hey, that booster's gotta go somewhere.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday June 17 2021, @10:16PM (1 child)
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?"...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 17 2021, @11:23PM
Take the glory, socialize the losses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @02:41AM
Incorrect. As long as the payload reaches its target orbit then it was a successful launch. What happens to the booster after that is the launch provider's problem (if SpaceX) or everybody else's problem (if PRC) or a controlled ocean disposal (everybody else).