China Is Going to Space

Student reporter Allen Balay

This is China's second time going into space in 2020. They have launched a space lab, a key part of the nation's plan to have a permanently staffed space station up and running by the early 2020's.
The uncrewed Tiangong-2 spacecraft lifted off September 15 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 10:04 a.m. EDT, riding a Long March-2F T2 rocket to orbit.

If all goes according to plan, the 9.5-ton  Tiangong-2 — whose name translates as "Heavenly Palace" in Mandarin — will soon settle into an orbit about 236 miles above Earth and perform a series of initial tests and checkouts, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency.