(FILES) This file photo taken on June 9, 2021 shows a Long March-2F carrier rocket carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft for China’s first manned mission to its new space station, scheduled for June 17, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the country’s northwestern Gansu province. – The first crew for China’s new space station prepared to blast off on June 17, 2021 for the latest step in Beijing’s ambitious programme to establish itself as a space power. (Photo by STR / China News Service (CNS) / AFP) / China OUT / TO GO WITH China-space,ADVANCER by Ludovic Ehret and Poornima Weerasekara