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Space

Space China sends new crew to Tiangong space station China successfully launched Shenzhou-15 spaceship, a spacecraft carrying three astronauts to Tiangong (China’s under-construction space station) atop the Long March-2F Y15 carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China. The spacecraft carried three astronauts - Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, and Zhang Lu. Note Tiangong (Palace in the Sky) is a space station constructed by China and operated by China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) in low Earth orbit between 340 and 450 km above the surface.