Elon Musk commends China Space program, hours before 3 astronauts sent to Space Station

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Elon Musk commends China Space program, hours before 3 astronauts sent to Space Station

Elon Musk, SpaceX's CEO, commended China's space program, hours before the country launched three astronauts to its space station.

What happened in the China space program, Musk said, is far more advanced than most people realize. He was replying to Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield. Hadfield had shared an article on an interview given by China's lunar exploration program, Wu Weiren, chief designer.

Earlier today China sent three astronauts to its space station, Tiangong Space Station, as part of its Shenzhou 16 mission, the country's 11th crewed mission. The rocket flies to Gobi Desert from Gobi Desert and was streamed by South China Morning Post at 9:31 a.m. China Standard Time.

China is planning to send astronauts to the moon soon, the AP reported, citing China's Manned Space Agency Deputy Director Lin Xiqiang.

By 2025, the United States is expected to send astronauts to the moon for the second time, ending with the Artemis III mission.

The four astronauts selected in Artemis II will be crewed by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency - Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen.

The four chosen astronauts will fly around the Moon aboard the Orion Spacecraft and will be the first humans to venture farthest from the Earth's low earth orbit since NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Artemis II is scheduled for November 2024 and is the second of two test flights planned before the U.S. returns to the moon.