This handout photo released by NASA shows the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe onboard shortly after the Mobile Service Tower was rolled back on August 10, 2018
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A new large carrier rocket – Long March 5B – is expected to lift off from the Wenchang launch site in the southern island of Hainan, the China Manned Space Agency said in a statement. The prototype vessel, designed for low-Earth orbit and deep space exploration, has enough room for six astronauts, compared to three seats in the previous model.“The mission will test the key technologies of the new manned spaceship such as the control of its re-entry into the atmosphere, heat shielding and recovery technology,” Yang Qing, a designer of the spaceship with the China Academy of Space Technology, was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua news agency in March.
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