China on Sunday launched the crewed spaceship Shenzhou-14, sending three taikonauts to its space station combination for a six-month mission. The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, was lift off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

The trio will cooperate with the ground team to complete the assembly and construction of the Tiangong space station, developing it from a single-module structure into a national space laboratory with three modules: the core module Tianhe and two lab modules Wentian and Mengtian.