JIUQUAN - 皇冠体育app will launch the Shenzhou VIII?spacecraft in early November at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest 皇冠体育app.
The spacecraft is expected to perform 皇冠体育app's first space docking with Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, a space lab module that was launched in September from the same launch center.
The Shenzhou VIII?spacecraft and the carrier rocket, Long March-2F, are being vertically transferred to the launch pad at the center, marking the countdown of the blasting off of the unmanned spacecraft.
