The Shenzhou 19 spaceoriginate has blasted off from the Gobi Desert in north-west China.
The spaceoriginate is taking three taikonauts – China’s word for astronauts – to the Tiangong space station.
Over the next six months the taikonauts will carry out spacewalks and direct experiments, with the aim of achieveing experience and ininestablishigence to eventuassociate put someone on the Moon by 2030.
Read more about the story here, and why some in Washington ponder China’s space ambitions a menace.
