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China to send its first civilian astronaut into space
Payload expert Gui Haichao will set off for the Tiangong space station as part of a three-person mission on Tuesday. China will send its first civilian astronaut into space as part of a crewed mission to the Tiangong space station on Tuesday, according to officials. Gui Haichao, a payload expert, will take off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Tuesday at 9:31am local time, the China Manned Space Agency said on Monday. While China does not plan to use Tiangong for global cooperation on the scale of the International Space Station, Beijing said it is open to foreign collaboration.














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