Astronauts of China’s Shenzhou-12 mission meet press

Kathmandu, 2021 June 16, Wednesday/Xinhua Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo, the three Chinese astronauts for the upcoming Shenzhou-12 mission, met the press on Wednesday.

The Shenzhou-12 manned spaceship is expected to be launched at 9:22 a.m. Thursday (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, for the construction of the country’s space station, the China Manned Space Agency announced earlier on Wednesday.