Sitting under the national flag and separated from the media by a transparent glass wall, 50-year-old Jing Haipeng and 37-year-old Chen Dong appeared calm as they prepare to be part of, what is scheduled to be, China's longest-ever manned spaceflight mission.
The two are scheduled to spend a total of 33-days in orbit.
This will be 3rd trip into space for veteran Chinese astronaut Jing Haipeng.
He was on the Shenzhou-7 mission in 2008 and the Shenzhou-9 mission in 2012.
The mission's commander was also part of docking missions on both his previous space flights, giving him the experience needed to help dock Shenzhou-11 with Tiangong-2.
Jing Haipeng says t
