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Wang Jiamin/Xinhua/Associated Press A Long March-2FT1 carrier rocket loaded with the Tiangong-1 unmanned space lab module blasted off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, on Thursday.

Asia in Pictures 2011

AFP/Getty Images The car-sized Tiangong-1 module was shot into space from the Jiuquan launch center on the edge of the Gobi Desert aboard a Long March 2FT1 rocket, seen here.

China Launches Space Module 2011

STR/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Chinese scientists at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on Thursday monitoring the country's first space docking, a maneuver that's crucial to the eventual goal of setting up a manned space station.

Asia In Picture 2011

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images From the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the northwestern province of Gansu, scientists monitored the docking.

China's First Space Docking 2011

The box car-sized Tiangong-1 module was shot into space from the Jiuquan launch center on the edge of the Gobi Desert aboard a Long March 2FT1 rocket.

China Space Station: Tiangong-1 Experimental Module Launched 2011

Associated Press Researchers tested Tiangong-1, the 8.5-ton module whose name translates as 'Heavenly Palace-1', in the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

China Launches Space Module 2011

According to China's state media, Gen. Bolden visited several sites including the Astronaut Research and Training Center, and the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, from where China launched all its Shenzhou manned missions.

Orbital Paths of U.S., China Set to Diverge Jeremy Page 2010

The Shenzhou VII spacecraft will be launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern province of Gansu latein the year and the astronauts will leave their spacecraft for the first time, the official told Xinhua.

China Plans EVA - NASA Watch 2008

On the morning of October 9, 2004, a person rifling through the garbage on the outskirts of Jiuquan city in the Suzhou region, found dismembered babies in a dumpster.

Cannibalism In China Seemingly Acceptable If Invoked For Health Purposes | Impact Lab 2007

ABSTRACT: Dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Xinminpu Group of the Gongpoquan Basin in the Jiuquan area, Gansu Province, northwestern China were mainly excavated during the course of two projects; the Sino-Japanese Silk Road Dinosaur Expedition in 1992, and the Sino-American Mazongshan Dinosaur Project during 1997-2000.

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