China launches the core capsule of its space station at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province on Thursday morning, April 29, 2021. - China Daily
BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): Sixty years after Yuri Gagarin undertook mankind's first space journey, China launched the core capsule of its space station on Thursday (April 29) morning, formally embarking on the buildup of one of the humanity's largest and most sophisticated space-based facilities.
As the countdown ticked down to zero at 11.23am at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, 10 engines at the bottom of a Long March 5B heavy-lift carrier rocket roared to life, generating a thrust power of 1,068 metric tonnes to lift the 18-story-tall vehicle through thick rain clouds covering the coastal city of Wenchang.
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