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March 02, 2016

Moving in to Tiangong 2
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 02, 2016
After months of speculation, it's official. The crew of Shenzhou 11 will live aboard the Tiangong 2 space laboratory for 30 days. Add more time in space for them to fly to the laboratory and come home. All things considered, it's a month-long mission. This mission plan had been suspected for a long time by analysts, but we received a big surprise recently with the crew level. Instead of three astronauts on the mission, there will only be two. In a previous article, this analyst suggested t ... read more

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