China launches Shenzhou X manned spacecraft with three astronauts.
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Shenzhou X manned spacecraft blasted off on June 12 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, which is also home to scientists, soldiers and their families.
Timeline of China's manned space program
Astronaut Zhang Xiaoguang is a native of Jinzhou City of northeast China's Liaoning Province.
Chinese astronaut Nie Haisheng is of Han nationality and a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Female astronaut Wang Yaping is a native of Yantai City in east China's Shandong Province.
Shenzhou IX will orbit in space for more than 10 days, the longest manned flight ever by a Chinese spacecraft.
China will launch the Shenzhou IX and Shenzhou X spacecraft and achieve space rendezvous and docking missions with the orbiting Tiangong-1 vehicle in 2012.
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The re-entry capsule of Shenzhou-VIII spacecraft is loaded onto a train departing for Beijing from Huhhot, capital of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Nov 18, 2011.
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