First astronauts blast off for China’s new space station
The Guardian says China’s first crewed spacecraft in nearly five years blasted off from the Gobi desert on Thursday morning, carrying astronauts to the new Tiangong space station.
A Long March-2F rocket carried the three astronauts in the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and was expected to dock with Tianhe, the main section of the Tiangong station, about six to eight hours later.
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