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The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced on Tuesday that Chinese astronauts Cai Xuezhi, Song Lingdong and Wang Hao Zhe will carry out the spaceflight mission of the Shenzhou-19 manned spacecraft, with Cai serving as the mission commander.
Agency spokesman Lin Shiqiang said during a press conference: Shenzhou-19 is scheduled to be launched at 4:27 a.m. Wednesday (Beijing time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China.
Cai completed the Shenzhou-14 space mission in 2022, while Song and Wang, two of the third batch of Chinese astronauts, are newcomers to space, both born in the 1990s.
Song was a former air force pilot before being selected as an astronaut, and Wang previously worked as a senior engineer at the Academy of Space Propulsion Technology of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
Wang is currently the only woman in China working as a spaceflight engineer and will become the third Chinese woman to launch a manned spaceflight mission.
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