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China,     1     June 17, successfully launched the crewed spacecraft Shenzhou XII, which is expected to send three     2     (astronaut) to its space station core module Tianhe for a three-month mission. The spacecraft, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket,     3     (launch) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch C enter at 9:22 a.m., according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). It is China’s seventh crewed mission to space and the first during the construction of China’s space station.

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Italian astronaut shows beauty of ancient Chinese composition in space

Besides “Wow” and “Great,” what else would you say    1     flying over the Earth in space? Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian female astronaut in space, posted several lines of a famous ancient Chinese composition on Twitter     2     (share) her joy.

She first wrote in Chinese, and then attached an accurate translation of the lines in both Italian and English     3     more people could understand the Chinese composition. She also attached three photos taken in space of China’s Bohai Bay and the day-night view of Beijing, the country’s capital.

    4     the first Italian female astronaut in space, Cristoforetti carried out her first space mission on Nov. 23, 2014. She started the second mission in April and returned to Earth on Friday night after a 127-day long stay in orbit.

Cristoforetti has been active in Sino-European cooperation in the field of manned spaceflight. She was a working group member     5     (task) with keeping in touch with Chinese counterparts to define and implement cooperation in the field of astronaut operations. In 2017, she took part in a sea survival exercise organized by the Astronaut Center of China in the Yellow Sea,     6     was the first joint training of Chinese and foreign astronauts in China.

An agreement     7    (sign) in 2015 between China and Europe on cooperation in the field of manned spaceflight, specifying the participation of China and Europe in each other’s astronaut training activities.     8     (speak) clear Chinese, Cristoforetti once told the media that the teams from China and Europe     9    (work) very well together in the field of astronaut training during the joint training.

She joined the Italian Air Force in 2001 and     10     (accumulate) more than 500 hours of flight experience. In May 2009, Cristoforetti was one of the six chosen from 8,000 European applicants to join the ESA astronaut corps.

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The Smart Dragon3    1    (make) its first fight on December 9, 2022. The rocket (火箭) too off at 2:35 pm from a ship in the Yellow Sea and sent 14 satllites during its fight. With its    2    (success) fight, the Smart Dragon3 is now the    3    (large) and strongest in China’s solid-propellant (固体推进器) rocket. It is capable    4    sending many satellites.

The model is the second Chinese rocket with the ability    5    (take) off both on land and at sea. China had    6    (previous) carried out two ship-based rocket launches using its Long March 11 solid-propellant rocket.

A new type of launch service ship is under research and    7    (develop). It will be able to carry many rockets and conduct several launches in a single flight.

Now we have started designing the Smart Dragon 4,    8    will be larger and more powerful. We are also studying the possibility of bringing liquid-propellant rockets to the sea for launch.

    9    (compare) with traditional land-based launches, a sea task has a lower risk of causing trouble. The method also allows launches to be made near the equator(赤道), and that increases the rocket’s carrying capacity, lowers launch costs    10    increases the life of satellites.