The three astronauts of the Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft mission, Nie Haisheng (C), Zhang Xiaoguang (R) and Wang Yaping, meet the media at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province, June 10, 2013. The Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft will be launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 5:38 p.m. Beijing Time (0938 GMT) June 11. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
A press conference to brief on the launch of the Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft is held by China's space program headquarters at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province, June 10, 2013. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
The Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft will be launched at 5:38 p.m. Tuesday, said China's manned space program spokeswoman on Monday.
The spacecraft will take three astronauts, two male and one female, into the space, said Wu Ping, the program's spokeswoman, at a press conference at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
They are Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping who is female, Wu said.
Wang, from a farmer's family in east China, is the second female astronaut in China's manned space mission and the first one born in the 1980s.
The spacecraft will travel in the space for 15 days and go through two docking tests with the orbiting space lab module Tiangong-1, one automatic and the other manual, Wu said.
The Tiangong-1 space lab has been a stable condition and ready for docking tests and receiving astronauts, she said.
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