China to launch new crew to space station in late October

The China Manned Space Agency has announced plans to launch the Shenzhou-19 crewed spacecraft and facilitate the return of the Shenzhou-18 crew to Earth in late October.

The agency’s October mission plan, released this week, indicates that the Shenzhou-18 crew, who are on board China’s orbiting space station, will complete their six-month space mission this month and embark on the journey back.

The Shenzhou-18 crew consists of three male taikonauts –Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu. The crew was launched into space on April 25.

During the week-long National Day holiday, the Shenzhou-18 crew is striving to maintain a regular, orderly work-life balance. However, their time is mostly occupied by a heavy workload, including scientific experiments, data collection, and preparation for the arrival of the new crew and handover work.

The trio expressed their excitement for the upcoming “reunion” in the space station, and showed recent footage released by the China Media Group. They said they would clean up the “rooms,” prepare “reunion meals,” and make sure the newcomers “feel at home.”

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Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…

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