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Space mission to help build its new space station. china s cosmic ambitions are part of a building space race with the united states. cnn s david culver is at china s launch site in the gobi desert and filed this report for us. reporter: laura, good morning to you from the gobi desert here in north western china. look over my shoulder. this is shinjo 13. a few hours from now, that craft known as the divine vessel will go up to the heavenly palace. that is china s soon to be completed space station. why is china building the space station? well, the u.s. barred china from participating in the international space station, so they re constructing their own. and they re inviting other countries to take part. the one catch is those european astronauts including from u.s. allied nations are going to have to learn chinese because all the interfaces are in chinese. so they re actually taking language courses now to do just ....

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