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February 29, 2016

Logistics Rule on Tiangong 2
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 29, 2016
China recently announced that the crew of Shenzhou 11, bound for the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, will only consist of two astronauts. That's a big step back from recent trends in Chinese spaceflight, which has favoured three-person crews for recent missions. Two crews were launched to the Tiangong 1 space laboratory, and they both contained three people. So did the Shenzhou 7 mission, which carried out China's first spacewalk. There was one exception to this trend. Shenzhou 8 carried no crew at a ... read more

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