In the news today, it is reported that Shenzhou VI, the sixth generation of China’s space shuttle, is going to be launched before October 15th. Currently there are 6 candidates waiting to be selected as Shenzhou’s pilots and the final decision might come out until 6 hours before the launching. There is going to be two pilots for the coming mission, where there was only one, Liwei Yang, last time. It is also reported that, Shenzhou VI is more advanced than its previous version, such as improvements were made on safety issues.