China successfully launched the Shenzhou 8

At 5:58 pm on November 1, 2011 (local time), China's Shenzhou 8 unmanned spacecraft was launched into space at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province. , Northwest China.

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Direct witness of the launch included Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Duc Giang and senior experts of the European Space Agency and the German Aerospace Center.

The director of China's manned space program Mr. Thuong Van Tuyen said Truong Chinh 2F rocket has brought the Shenzhou 8 to orbit successfully and will assemble with Thien Cung 1, a laboratory module. was put on Earth orbit on September 29 last.

This assembly process is expected to take place within 2 days. This is China's first aerial assembly, with trials prepared for China's own space station construction project by 2020.

If the assembly process is successful, the event will pave the way for China to bring a space station into operation in 2020, making it the third country in the world to achieve this feat.