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The Shenzhou-23 vessel is scheduled to launch at 11:08 p.m. (1508 GMT) on Sunday.
Shenzhou-23 will send a Chinese astronaut for a year-long stay on Tiangong, a national record.
KEY POINTS
- Former Hong Kong police inspector Li Jiaying will be the first astronaut from Hong Kong in space.
- Shenzhou-23 will perform China's first autonomous rapid docking with Tiangong's core module.
- China recently conducted the world's first space-based human 'artificial embryo' experiment on Tiangong.
- China aims for a permanent lunar base with Russia by 2035, using newly developed lunar hardware.
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