Video: Chinese crew with first woman aboard launches to new space station

China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, carrying the country's first ever female astronaut along with her two male colleagues, has set off for the stars. It blasted off earlier from the steppes of Gansu province in the north west, to cheers from a crowd at a special seeing-off ceremony.

The three astronauts will have to link up with Beijing's laboratory module, that's been in orbit since last September. They will conduct scientific tests and are expected to return home in around 10 days. Beijing hopes to establish its own permanent station in orbit by the end of the decade.

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[Mike Hunt]

hahah you know what's also funny? they build your iPhones and Macbooks and other stuff you use in every day life. So funny amirite?

[nodogyougay48]

Soo... I'm guessing they added a kitchen.



[bombarderoazul]

Liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

[LiveForPanda]

True, true, America is good at all team sports, especially football (eventhough I don't watch it at all)

Chinese football (soccer) team sucks, as well as the basketball team

[tyjghjghhh]

well, they still got football

no one can beat them in football.

they will be the best football players in their 3rd world country.

[tyjghjghhh]

the evolution of intelligent human beings,

smart people DON'T have time nor want to spend their time talking shit about other people who is BETTER and smarter than them,

they work hard at it everyday to BECOME smarter and better than those people who INSPIRES them.

that is the logic of reasoning from someone with a good brain,

idiots envy, gets jealous and talks shit about someone who is better than them,

smart ppl get INSPIRED to do better, work harder to be as good as the person they see.

[3gunslingers]

liquid fuel boosters? werner von Braun would be proud.

i hope the chinese space program becomes a great success. that would kick the lazy NASA butt, to progress their own programs.

[nodogyougay48]

Another thing we people here in the west like to do is joke..

Feminism really isn't helping anyways, it's a wedge that pulls the emotions of anyone feeling victimized and forces retribution. Lifes not fair and getting "even" doesn't help it, it's best to grow from the experience..

Any other life lessons I can assist you with..?

[chloebaoable]

hope your mom is happy with your attitude to women....BTW, unlike westerners, most of chinese women work and have their own career...

[Baxter Ross]

Different atmospheric conditions. Also I've noticed that RP-1 / LOX tends to produce a cloud but LH2 / LOX does not.

[AndroidGZS]

liquid fuel

[AsianPerson3]

And probably the only thing in China that doesn't produce smoke. American and Russian Rockets use solid fuel boosters in their first stage, and they produce lots of smoke.