BBC. China has launched its Shenzhou-15 spacecraft from the Gobi Desert, carrying astronauts to its newly-built Tiangong space station.
It will be the country’s first-ever crew handover in orbit.
Three astronauts will live on the station for six months, before being replaced by another crew.
The station is becoming the second permanently-inhabited outpost in orbit, with the Nasa-led International Space Station the first.
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