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China to launch manned spaceship in June
by Staff Writers
Beijing (XNA) Nov 12, 2012


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China plans to launch Shenzhou-10 spacecraft in early June 2013, a lead space program official said here Saturday.

Like in the Shenzhou-9 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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