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Shenzhou X before being launched from the Jiuquan space base in China. REUTERS / Stringer

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Chinese astronauts Wang Yaping, Zhang Xiaoguang and Nie Haisheng before launch of Shenzhou X AFP PHOTO

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China has launched Shenzhou space ship X from the Jiuquan space base (northwest). Chinese Astronauts Wang Yaping, Zhang Xiaoguang and Nie Haisheng departed in the fifth manned mission performed by the Asian country.

The launch occurred at 17:38 local time, 11:38 Spanish time, following the schedule, while Chinese President Xi Jinping, followed the events from the Jiuquan base.

Five minutes after launch, the spacecraft came off the booster rockets and soon entered orbit, deploying solar panels that will supply energy during its 15-day mission.

state television CCTV, broadcast live to the release, offered pictures of the cabin and the astronauts, who performed a salute to the camera to show that everything was done successfully.

The mission objective , which will last 15 days, is build a space lab , which is the last step before developing your own space station, which is expected to be ready in 2020. Once in orbit, the ship was scheduled to dock in space laboratory module called Tiangon (Heavenly Palace), for astronauts to conduct various experiments and tests module systems .

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Among those who have gone into space, will be Wang Yaping, a female Air Force pilot, who will become his country’s second step on ESPACI or after that in June 2012 Liu Yang did to carry out the first docking with the Tiangong I , as a prelude to the establishment of a permanent station Chinese in the cosmos.

and Nie Haisheng Zhang Xiaoguang your co. Nie, the commander of the mission, will also become the first Chinese astronaut to repeat, as was part of the Shenzhou VIII mission in 2005.

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Chinese Race in space

first Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei, traveled into space on October 16, 2003 aboard the Shenzhou V , and so far eight other Chinese military pilots will have followed.

Nie and Fei Junlong

performed the second manned flight, the Shenzhou VI , in October 2005, and in September 2008 traveled the cosmos Shenzhou VII with three cosmonauts, who conducted the first spacewalk of a Chinese astronaut outside the spacecraft.