Rocket blasts off carrying first Chinese crew to new space station

Rocket blasts off carrying first Chinese crew to new space station

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Jiuquan, China (AFP) June 17, 2021

The first astronauts for China's new space station blasted off Thursday for the country's longest crewed mission to date, a landmark step in establishing Beijing as a major space power. The trio launched on a Long March-2F rocket for the Tiangong station, where they will spend three months, in a much-anticipated blast-off broadcast live on state TV. Lift-off happened at 9:22 am (0122 GMT

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