A LEAP FURTHER.China successfully launches its crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12 on June 17, which sent three astronauts to its space station core module Tianhe for a three-month mission. It is China’s seventh crewed mission into space and the first one during the construction of its space station. The three astronauts are commander Nie Haisheng, a 56-year-old veteran who participated in the Shenzhou-6 and Shenzhou-10 missions, Liu Boming, 54, who was part of the Shenzhou-7 mission, and Tang Hongbo, 45, who embarks on his first space mission.
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