China sends astronauts to research life in space | The World | ABC NEWS

China has launched three astronauts into space to find out how long periods in orbit affects the human body, with one set to spend more than a year on the Tiangong Space Station.

International Space Science Institute executive director Richard de Grijs says China is making the push "so that future missions to the moon, and possibly eventually Mars, become a viable proposition"

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