The China Manned Space Agency said Saturday that China is about to launch a new three person mission to complete work on its permanent space station.
During the six months they are on the Tiangong station, the crew will oversee the addition of two laboratory modules to the main living space.
The spaceship is due to blast off at 10:44 a.m. on the edge of the Gobi desert. The agency said it would be on Sunday. The Long March 2F rocket will provide power.
The three-module structure will join the existing Tianhe with Wentian and Mengtian arriving in July and October of this year. There is a cargo craft at the station.
The new modules will provide more stability, more powerful functions, and complete equipment, according to Chen, who was a member of the mission.
A space veteran and China's first female astronauts to reach space, Liu is also a mother of two. Cai is going to space.
China is the third country after the former Soviet Union and the U.S. to have its own astronauts in space.
Last year, it placed a robot rover on Mars. There is a possibility of a crewed mission to the moon.
The United States excluded China's space program from the International Space Station because it was run by the Communist Party's military wing.
It will be the first time in the history of the station that six people will be on board at the same time.
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