We have an interesting week coming up with China launching astronauts to its space station and SpaceX sending an unmanned Dragon 2 on a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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This week, SpaceX will launch a commercial mission to the Moon. The payload is a lunar lander from iSpace, and will be carrying two rovers that will explore the surface of Earth's natural satellite.
We have a lot of rocket launches coming up next week. The most notable of them all is the Shenzhou 15 being sent to the Chinese Space Station with an unknown crew, this mission is due on Saturday.
China is set to launch a cargo mission to its space station this week, and it will also launch an unknown payload. SpaceX and United Launch Alliance have missions planned this week too.
We have an exciting line-up of launches this week, perhaps most notable is the launch of the Mengtian module for the Chinese Space Station. This could make the station a bit easier to see from Earth.
We have fairly few launches this week but the ones we do have are quite interesting. The first is a resupply mission to the Chinese Space Station and the other will see more Starlink sats orbited.
This week there are a number of notable rocket launches. William Shatner will experience space, more taikonauts are going to the CSS and NASA is launching Lucy to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
Next week plans to be quite exciting for rocket launches as China will be expanding its space station with the Tianzhou 3 cargo craft. It will give taikonauts more room to store items.
In the upcoming week, China will be sending its first three taikonauts to the new Chinese Space Station. They are set to blast off on Thursday morning aboard the Shenzhou 12 spacecraft.
This week is packed full of rocket launches among which China will launch the first module of its space station. The Chinese Space Station could receive three taikonauts as soon as June.