Chen Dong, Cai Xuzhe, and Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman in space on the country’s Shenzhou 9 mission in 2012, are among the three-person crew. While in orbit, the crew will undertake numerous spacewalks and prepare the station for the arrival of two new lab modules, the Wentian next month and the Mengtian in October. According to Space.com, the two modules will join opposing sides of the Tianhe core module to form a T-shaped station smaller than the International Space Station (ISS).
