China is to launch two men into orbit on Monday morning as
it continues to develop its ability to explore space.
The astronauts will take off from the Jiuquan Satellite
Launch Centre in northern China, Chinese officials said.
The plan is for them to dock with and then spend 30 days on
board the Tiangong 2 space station testing its ability to support life.
This and previous launches are seen as pointers to possible
crewed missions to the Moon or Mars.
An earlier Tiangong - or "Heavenly Palace" - space
station was decommissioned earlier this year after docking with three rockets.
The astronauts on this latest mission were named as Jing
Haipeng, 49, who has already been in space twice, and 37-year-old Chen Dong.
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