In interplanetary news,
Three astronauts have flown to China’s unfinished space station where they will live for three months in China’s first crewed space flight since 2016.
The mission is the third of eleven needed to complete assembly of China’s first space station and will be used to test out technologies such as the life support system as well as the physical and psychological impacts of living in space.
The station is the only other space station than the ISS, which China is banned from collaborating on under US law. If the ISS is decommissioned in 2024 as planned, China’s space station could become the only operating station.