Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze will carry out the Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceflight mission, with Cai serving as the commander, the China Manned Space Agency announced at a press conference on Tuesday.

The Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship is scheduled to launch at 4:27 a.m. on Wednesday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, said Lin Xiqiang, spokesperson for the agency.

Cai completed the Shenzhou-14 space mission in 2022. Song and Wang, both part of the third batch of Chinese astronauts, are newcomers to space, and both were born in the 1990s.

Song was a former air force pilot before being selected as an astronaut, while Wang previously served as a senior engineer at the Academy of Aerospace Propulsion Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

Wang is currently China's only female space flight engineer and will become the third Chinese woman to embark on a crewed spaceflight mission, the agency noted.

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