NASA may be grounded, but the Chinese are just getting warmed up. Rocket launches Chinese space lab A rocket carrying China’s first space laboratory, Tiangong-1, has launched from the north of the country. The Long March vehicle lifted clear from the Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert at 21:16 local time (13:16 GMT). The rocket’s [...]
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