Three astronauts blasted off for China’s longest-ever stay in space this week. They will live on [China’s new space station](//www.digitaltrends.com/news/first-module-of-a-new-space-station-enters-earth-orbit/) , Tianhe, for six months, during which time they’ll perform spacewalks from the station’s core module. The three include Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu, as well as Wang Yaping, who is the first woman to stay on the new space station. They launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert, on a Shenzhou-13 spacecraft carried by a Long March-2F carrier rocket. Liftoff was at 12:23 a.m. Beijing Time on Saturday, October 16, as reported by state...