Astronaut candidates for the Shenzhou IX manned spacecraft attend a flag-raising ceremony at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on June 10, 2012. Three of the six candidates will be selected to board the spacecraft, which will be launched in mid-June to perform the first manned space docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module. [Photo/nfdaily.cn]
China launched its second space laboratory, the Tiangong II, on Thursday night, which space officials said will become the country’s largest scientific platform in space.
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