China launches Shenzhou-18 manned spaceship

China on Thursday launched the Shenzhou-18 manned spaceship to send three taikonauts to its orbiting Tiangong Space Station for a six-month mission. The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off at 20:59 Thursday (China Standard Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. #Shenzhou #SpaceChina

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[Brett]

Not gonna lie that synchronized salute was dope af

[CommackMark]

I guess Chinese students know the Earth isn't flat and aren't arguing about gender fluidity and other nonsense.

[levak]

Bravo China, genuine friend, from Serbia with love!

[moses]

Human progress is all I see here, not Chinese or Russian but human progress!!

[julianabella]

That is a feat that deserves a real recognition despite all the tensions between the east and west.

[voice_of_reasons]

Weldone, China.
Despite the whole western world against you.. you did it and keep doing great things.

Haters will hate, Jealous will taunt you. But this a great achievement.
Congratulations 👏🎉

[Panzer-IV-VTank-Destroyer]

I'm from Europe and as far as China is concerned it has long since passed us in technology in development in humanity. A hardworking nation to be proud of.

[PradhanmantriBruhh]

मुबारक हो चीन और चीन के लोग 🙏🏽
🇮🇳🤝🏽🇨🇳

[MarkHartman-ty]

I'm proud of these men and the country of China

[dariushirandust]

Coungratulations from Iran to our dear friend China 🇮🇷❤️🇨🇳

[iwannistsalkitzides]

Salutes perfect timing....first-time I see like it
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[robertchantry]

From California Congratulations 👏 love the salute

[captainsensiblejr.]

The Chinese do not have astronauts, they have taikonauts, just as the Russians have cosmonauts.

[YameenKhan-xbtf]

God bless China and its people ...Great leader 👍👍👍💪

[jaybartgis]

In the words of Neil Degrass Tyson, we turned down China in the ISS because we needed an antagonist rival for competition to get funding

[mauriceukaegbu]

Not gonna lie, If i were Chinese, I would be so proud.

[alexanderkluge]

Congratulations love and Respekt from Germany 🇩🇪🤝🇨🇳

[JobIamartino]

Very impressive I must say and I admire the military precision. The salutes show discipline in their space force very very not expected and this is coming from the country across the world. I salute you for your accomplishments. If I didn’t, I would be the lesser.

[jonpollock]

Go, China! This will get America moving again.

[metalmann]

China is the life blood of earth. ❤️ Chinese people.