Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng, left, and Chen Dong, right, wave from behind a glass enclosure during a presser at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China Sunday Oct. 16, 2016. Chinese officials unveiled plans for Monday’s launch of the country’s latest space mission in which the two astronauts will be blasted into space and will dock with an orbiting space lab. (Chinatopix Via AP) (Associated Press)BEIJING — Chinese officials unveiled plans for Monday’s launch of the country’s latest space mission in which two astronauts will be blasted into space and will dock with an orbiting space lab. “It is any astronaut’s dream and pursuit to be able to perform many space missions,” Jing said at a separate briefing. China conducted its first crewed space mission in 2003, becoming only the third country after Russia and the U.S. to do so, and has since staged a spacewalk and landed its Yutu rover on the moon.

Source: Washington Post October 16, 2016 03:36 UTC