China launches space docking mission
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 20:30
in Astronomy & Space
BEIJING, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- China says a spacecraft launched from the Gobi Desert will attempt the country's first space docking with a capsule already orbiting the Earth.
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