China launched a three-person crew on a six-month mission aboard its space station. The Shenzhou-13 spaceship was launched by a Long March-2F rocket at 12:25 am Saturday .
It is expected to complete docking with the Tianhe module within the next six hours, beginning the mission that will continue the work of the first three-person crew that spent 90 days aboard. Those crew members conducted two spacewalks and deployed a 10-meter (33-foot) mechanical arm before returning to Earth in mid-September.