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China's Shenzhou-18 mission docks with space station: Xinhua

Space Daily Friday, 26 April 2024
Jiuquan, China (AFP) April 25, 2024

A spaceship carrying three astronauts from China's Shenzhou-18 mission safely docked at Tiangong space station Friday, state-run media reported, the latest step in Beijing's space programme that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030. The crew took off in a capsule atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's northwest at 8:59 pm local time !1259 GMT)
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