China Readies To Launch Shenzhou 8

BEIJING — Chinese technicians have fueled the Long March 2F launcher that is due on Nov. 1 local time to loft Shenzhou 8, the second of two spacecraft that will be used in the country’s crucial space docking exercise. The other, the Tiangong 1 laboratory, has been lowered to the altitude planned for...

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