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News / Brèves / Man’s Destiny in Space / Destin spatial de l’humanité China’s Next Shenzhou Launch Will Take Crew to Tiangong-1 20 February 2012 After announcements by space officials earlier this week that the next Shenzhou mission would be unmanned, spokesmen for China’s manned space program announced yesterday that the next launch of a Shenzhou spacecraft, slated to take place between June and August this year, will carry a three-man crew. This is described as an "acceleration" in the program, and indicates the confidence that China’s space officials have in the performance of Tiangong-1, and the readiness of the crew. The astronauts will dock with the Tiangong-1 module that has been in orbit since September, and carry out some scientific experiments. Li Wei, deputy spacecraft designer with China Aerospace and Technology Corporation, reported that the Shenzhou-9 crew "may stay in space for more than 10 days." This would be the longest manned mission that China has carried out. Last Fall, the unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft docked twice with the small module. In fact, such an autonomous docking, controlled from the ground, is more difficult than that with crew on board, and is something the U.S. has never done. But a 10-day manned mission is a challenge for the life support technology for the crew, and allocation of resources during the mission. China has said it plans to orbit increasingly sophisticated follow-on Tiangong-2 and -3 modules over this present decade, and by 2020, have assembled a 60-ton space station facility.