According to the information given at the press conference held today by the China Human Spacecraft Project Office, the manned spacecraft named Shenzhou-18 will be launched on April 25 at 20:59 Beijing time.
The crew of the spacecraft consists of three people: Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu, who were born in the 1980s. The three Chinese taikonauts will stay on the space station for six months, engage in extravehicular activities two or three times during that time, and return to Earth in late October.
It was also reported that the taikonaut rotation of the mission with the spacecraft named Shenzhou-17 will be completed on April 30 and will return to Earth. In addition, the issue of flight participation of foreign astronauts and tourists to China's space station will also be investigated.