Three astronauts on board, fifth mission to the orbiting station
China has launched the spacecraft with Shenzhou-20 crew from the Jiuquan site, in the northwest of the country. The state media of Beijing report it, remembering that the astronauts Chen Dong (commander), Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie are engaged in the mission: they will have to reach the Mandarina Tiangong orbitant space station and stay there for six months. The spacecraft was set up on board a Long March-2f carrier rocket. Shenzhou-20 is the 35/Esimo flight mission of the Chinese Space program with crew and is the fifth of its kind made during the construction phase of the Tiangong orbitant space station.
