China Rolls Out Rocket for Crewed Launch to Orbiting Space Station Written 10 June 2021
Long March 2D launch of VRSS-1 in September 2012 | Credit: Cristóbal Alvarado Minic; Wikipedia; CC BY-SA 2.0
Space News reports that China “rolled out a Long March 2F rocket Wednesday in preparation to send the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and three astronauts to” the Tianhe core module of China’s space station. The Long March 2F rocket “was vertically transferred to its pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Wednesday.” Chinese authorities have not given a date for the launch. Shenzhou-12 “was expected to launch around June 10 Beijing time but a week-long delay to the launch of the Tianzhou-2 cargo mission likely pushed back the date by a similar length of time.”
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