Posted on 06/03/2022 11:20:14 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
China is gearing up to send the third crew to its new Tiangong space station, with launch set for late Saturday (June 4) U.S. Eastern time.
The Shenzhou 14 spacecraft, sitting atop a Long March 2F rocket, was rolled out to its pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Sunday (May 29), according to China’s human spaceflight agency.
Launch is expected around 10:40 p.m. EDT on June 4 (0240 GMT or 10:40 a.m. local time on Sunday, June 5) according to airspace closure notices. Livestreams of the launch are expected to be made available closer to liftoff.
Three Chinese astronauts and another three-person backup crew are in quarantine ahead of launch at Jiuquan, but the identities of the astronauts have not yet been revealed.
"The spacecraft system and the rocket system are both in good condition,” Zhang Fusheng, chief designer for the crewed spacecraft system, told CCTV(opens in new tab), adding that the final assembly and testing had been completed.
The three Shenzhou 14 crewmates will spend around six months aboard Tianhe, the core module of the Tiangong space station. They will be aboard to receive two new modules, named Wentian and Mengtian, which are due to launch in late July and October, respectively.
Those two coming missions will see the completion of the T-shaped space station.
Back in the assembly building at Jiuquan, another Long March 2F rocket and the Shenzhou 15 spacecraft are being readied for potential use in case of an emergency in orbit.
"We started preparing two rockets and two spacecraft for every launch mission when the space station was still under construction, and we call it 'rolling' launch," Deng Xiaojun, the "commander zero" for the Shenzhou 14 mission, told CCTV(opens in new tab).
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How would you like to spend six months in a space station that has “Made In China” stamped on the side of it with Mark Kelly and his brother and the Vindmann twins. Geez.
As I came out of the shower I’m half-singing “I’m sorry for the way things are in China....”.
An old John Denver song.
Don’t know what made me think about that song
Thank you, Bill Clinton, for selling us out to the CCP via one of your grifter buddies, Johnny Huong.
>>Thank you, Bill Clinton, for selling us out to the CCP via one of your grifter buddies, Johnny Huong.
To be fair, Clinton sold us out to the CCP via MANY of his grifter buddies... Charlie Trie, Bernie Schwartz, Johnny Chung, those Buddhist nuns that swore an oath of poverty and then made millions of dollars in political donations, the 120 people connected to Chinagate that either fled the country or pled the 5th to keep from testifying...
"A Chinese space center found a mysterious jamming device outside its base just weeks before a crewed rocket launch"
Only for peaceful, non-military, functions.
I read somewhere they have 50 missions in the next year or so. It will be as big as the ISS and all shiny new high ground.
Then, on to the moon bases!
and no, they won’t be sharing rides
Go Brandon ! I mean Go China !
( Their first Palace of Heaven crashed "naturally" out of control, they said.)
https://jalopnik.com/chinas-first-space-station-is-out-of-control-and-will-c-1786949529
Can’t blame China for American avarice and corruption .
It’s for Propaganda nothing else
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