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\n This image made from video footage by China’s CCTV shows Tianhe core module’s camera footage showing Tianzhou 2 cargo spacecraft app<\/a>roaching on Sunday, May 30, 2021. An automated spacecraft docked with China’s new space station Sunday carrying fuel and supplies for its future crew, the Chinese space agency announced. Credit: CCTV via AP Video
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A three-member crew of male astronauts will blast off next month for a three-month mission on China’s new space station, according to a space official who was the country’s first astronaut in orbit.<\/p>\n


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The comments by Yang Liwei, the manned space program’s deputy chief designer, to state television came as an automated spacecraft was launched with fuel and supplies for the Tianhe station.<\/p>\n

The Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, is the third and largest space station launched by China’s increasingly ambitious space program. Its core module was launched into orbit April 29.<\/p>\n

The Shenzhou 12 capsule carrying the crew will be launched from the Jiuquan base in China’s northwest next month, Yang said in comments broadcast Saturday by China Central Television.<\/p>\n

Yang, who orbited Earth in 2003, gave no details of the astronauts’ identities or a flight date but confirmed the crew will include no women. He said the crew will come from the program’s two earliest groups of astronauts.<\/p>\n

Asked whether women would be in the crew, Yang said, “on Shenzhou 12 we don’t have them, but missions after that all will have them.”<\/p>\n

The Tianzhou-2 spacecraft that docked with Tianhe on Sunday carried 6.8 tons of cargo including space suits, food and equipment for the astronauts and fuel for the station, according to the space program.<\/p>\n