China's manned rocket takes off for space station

China sent three astronauts to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, putting a civilian scientist into space for the first time as Beijing pursues plans to send a manned mission to the moon by the end of the decade. The world's second-largest economy has invested billions of dollars in its…

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