Spacecraft picked up about 01:22 GMT Thursday from northwestern China which boosted the U.S. anti-aircraft missile program.
China has successfully established the Shenzhou-12 – its first operation in five years – accelerating its program against the United States.
Shenzhou-12, meaning “Divine Vessel”, departed 01:22 GMT on Thursday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, according to a CCTV video.
The launch took place with the Long March-2F portable rocket.
The ship carried three male experts – Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo.
In a CCTV footage, two of the three experts made the “OK” sign as Shenzhou flew across Earth and followed a major split of the four additions.
After landing, the space shuttle is moving rapidly “available and waiting with the Tianhe climbing section”, according to CCTV.
The astronauts will settle down in the starting phase and stay in motion for three months.
China began construction operations this year with the establishment of Tianhe – the first and largest phase of the three-channel station – at the end of April.
Nie, a native of central Hubei and a former pilot, is in charge of the project.
Shenzhou-12 is Nie’s third outing, following the Shenzhou-6 mission in 2005 and the Shenzhou-10 mission in 2013, according to the Xinhua news agency.
This is Liu’s second mission to go into space, the first being the Shenzhou-7 mission in 2008, which had a notable atmosphere. It is Tang’s first trip into space.
The last construction project in China was in 2016 when two men – Chen Dong and Jing Haipeng – were sent via Shenzhou-11 warships to Tiangong-2, a space station exhibition where they stayed for about a month.
Beijing’s goal is to make the country a superpower by 2030, turning the world into a new frontier for its war with the United States.
In May, it became the second country to launch a spacecraft on Mars, two years after landing the first spacecraft on the actual surface of the moon.
