China launches first crew to live on new space station

MSN ^ | 6/7/20211` | SAM McNEIL

[Shadylake]

JIUQUAN, China (AP) — Under bright-blue morning skies, China launched its first crewed space mission in five years Thursday, sending three science-minded military pilots rocketing to a new orbiting station they're expected to reach around midafternoon.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Some Chinese will volunteer for anything in order to get out of their prison country. /not so much as sarc as the truth!. I’ve met some Red Guard defectors in 1971. They had some horrible stories to tell about “The Cultural Revolution” and its’ slaughter.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

If not for the free traitors, that money would have launched our astronauts to our new space station, or maybe even better.

But at least we get to save $.10 on communist made paint brushes.

[I-ambush]

The crew included a Uyghur, for “spare parts.”