China News Service, Beijing, June 9 (Guo Chaokai) According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, on June 9, the combination of the Shenzhou 12 manned spacecraft and the Long March 2 F Yao 12 carrier rocket has been transferred to the launch area. .
At present, the facilities and equipment at the launch site are in good condition, and various functional inspections and joint tests before launch will be carried out as planned.
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Previously, Yang Liwei, deputy chief designer of China's manned space engineering, revealed in an interview with the media that the Shenzhou 12 manned spacecraft plans to send three astronauts into space in June, and these three astronauts will become the core of the space station. The first batch of "occupants" in the cabin.
The three astronauts will stay in orbit for three months to carry out a series of operations such as extravehicular maintenance, equipment replacement, and scientific application loads.
Yang Liwei said that the three astronauts of the Shenzhou 12 flight crew were selected from the first and second batch of astronauts in China.
In view of the older characteristics of the first group of astronauts, the astronauts systematically increased the training intensity and continuously improved their adaptability in space.
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According to the space station construction mission plan, China will continue to implement 11 missions this year and next, including 3 space station section launches, 4 cargo spacecraft and 4 manned spacecraft launches. The space station will be built in orbit around 2022 to realize China The mission goal of the "third step" of the "three-step" development strategy for manned space engineering.
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On April 29 and May 29 this year, China successfully launched the space station Tianhe core module and the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft.
In June, the Shenzhou 12 manned spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with the core module of Tianhe after it is launched into the sky.
It is expected that in September and October this year, China will also carry out the missions of the Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft and the Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft respectively.
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