Beijing says it is “not competing” with Washington, despite racing to land astronauts on the Moon before 2030 Three Chinese astronauts have successfully reached the Tiangong space station, with one of them set to spend more than a year in orbit in another step in Beijing’s preparations for a future lunar landing. The Shenzhou-23 spacecraft launched aboard a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert late Sunday. Less than four hours later, following a rapid