China News Service, Jiuquan, October 15 (Ma Shuaisha) According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, on the evening of October 15th, the ceremony of the Shenzhou 13 astronauts' expedition to space was held at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

  At about 21:40, the astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping, and Ye Guangfu, dressed in milky white space suits, walked out from the south gate of Wentian Pavilion one by one.

Subsequently, Li Shangfu, the commander-in-chief of China's manned space project and the commander-in-chief of the space station stage mission command, issued an order. Three astronauts led the expedition, and a six-month flight mission was about to start.

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