China's Shenzhou-23 crewed spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the country's northwest on Sunday (May 24), sending three astronauts to its orbiting space station. The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, lifted off from the launch site at 11.08pm. The crew members consist of mission commander Zhu Yangzhu, and fellow astronauts Zhang Zhiyuan and Lai Ka-ying, who is also the first astronaut from Hong Kong. In another notable first, one of the crew members