Tuesday China successfully launched Shenzhou-8 spacecraft that will attempt the first unmanned rendezvous with the test module “Tiangong-1″ which is already in orbit. The docking will be a crucial step towards building a space station by 2020. The docking must be held within two days after the launch of Shenzhou VIII at an altitude of 343 km above the surface of the Earth. The Shenzhou VIII was launched at 5:58 local time (9:58 p.m. GMT Monday) in the Gobi Desert (northwest China) by a Long March 2F rocket. The spacecraft separated from its launch rocket at the height of 200 km above the Earth
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