China launches manned space flight

A rocket carrying two Chinese astronauts on the country's second manned space mission blasted off Wednesday from a heavily guarded launch base in the country's desert northwest. In a sign of official confidence in the mission, the communist government broke with the military-run space program's usual secrecy and showed the launch live on state television.

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