China's Shenzhou 11 spaceship onboard a Long March-2F carrier rocket takes off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu province on Monday Oct. 17, 2016. China aims to send its space station into orbit two years before the International Space Station (ISS) retires in 2024, according to state news agency Xinhua.
China was late to the space race, it didn't send its first satellite into space until 1970, just after the United States put the first man on the moon.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/16/asia/china-longest-space-mission/?iid=ob_homepage_showcase_pool-test
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