"New step" in China's space conquest: three astronauts took off on Sunday for the "Heavenly Palace", the station that Beijing is building in orbit and which should now be occupied.
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Since being slapped with economic sanctions by the West, Russia has repeatedly made threats to end its association with NASA onboard the ISS, even threatening to let the 400- tonne space station fall to Earth in an uncontrolled crash. Now, Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, has expressed interest in cooperating with China in manned space missions.