China to launch manned spaceship in June
Updated: 2012-11-10 18:28
(Xinhua)
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BEIJING - China plans to launch Shenzhou X spacecraft in early June 2013, a lead space program official said here Saturday.
Like in the Shenzhou IX mission, the crew might include two men astronauts and a woman, who are scheduled to enter the Tiangong-1 space lab module, Niu Hongguang, deputy commander-in-chief of China's manned space program, said on the sidelines of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
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