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The unmanned Shenzhou 8 craft, launched earlier this week, has made contact with the Tiangong-1 space lab.
Being able to dock two space vehicles together is a necessary capability for China if it wants to start building a space station towards the decade’s end.
No astronauts were in the Shenzhou craft this time, but future missions will carry people.
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Read moreA raven stretches its wings as it sits on a post inside the 30 km (18 miles) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near the village of Babchin, Belarus on December 23, 2009. The sign reads: “Radiation hazard”. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 