China on Tuesday successfully launched a spacecraft carrying three astronauts to its under-construction space station
The Shenzhou-15 spaceship, atop the Long March-2F Y15 carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China
The astronauts will for the first time in China's space history, conduct an in-orbit rotation with the Shenzhou-14 crew, who were sent to the space station in June and stay in orbit for about six months.
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