China, successful test of the Shenzhou-17 spacecraft

In competition with the US and in a new step in its plan to send an astronaut to the Moon by 2030,... China successfully launched the Shenzhou-17 manned spacecraft to its space station. According to CCTV, the Long March -2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-17 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China with three astronauts to the Tiangong space station. This is the sixth mission of Chinese manned spacecraft to reach this infrastructure, and the second mission after the construction of this station was completed in late 2022. Chinese officials reported that the previous crew will return to Earth on October 31 with the arrival of new astronauts.