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1st Ld: China's space lab Tiangong-2 blasts off

Xinhua, September 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

China on Thursday launched space lab Tiangong-2 into space, paving the way for a permanent space station China plans to build around 2022.

In a cloud of brown smoke, Tiangong-2 roared into the air underneath a mid-autumn full moon from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the back of a Long March-2F rocket, trailing a vast volume of flame. Endi