A new space station occupies the skies!

A new space station occupies the skies!

Blasting out of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Sept. 15 in China's Gansu Province, the country's second space station, Tiangong 2, was placed into a low-Earth orbit.

While this isn't an International Space Station related blog post, this moment is important in the overall history of space stations. When Shenzhou 11  China's crewed spacecraft  launches sometime next month, it will dock to the new outpost making Tiangong 2 the 11th occupied orbital laboratory in history.

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