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Station. janis mackey frayer has an inside look and hard to get closer than she got to the launch pad. >> reporter: tonight a first. china sending astronauts to its new space station. blasting off from the gobi desert. docking 242 miles above the earth. this is a milestone for china. it's poured billions into becoming a space power and it's getting there fast. the chinese station of heavenly palace is the quarter of the size of the international space station. but with the iss getting old china could have the only space outpost. >> this phase of the chinese space program is something they're b...
Inside china's own space station. nbc news foreign correspondent janice mackie fire has an inside look from the launch pad in china. in fact, it's hard to get closer than she got to the launch pad. >> tonight, a first. china sending astronauts to its new space station. blasting off from the go be desert. six and a half hours later, docking 242 miles above the earth. this is a milestone for china. it's poured billions into becoming a space power and it's getting their fast. the chinese station called xinjiang or heavenly palace is a quarter of the size of international space station but arrival...
The chinese station, called tiang-gong, or heavenly palace, is a quarter the size of the international space station but a rival. china frozen out of the iss by u.s. security concerns. but with the iss getting old china could have the only space outpost. >> this phase of the chinese space program is something they've been champing at the bit to do for a decade now. >> reporter: the unusually public fanfare, timed for the communist party's 100th anniversary next month, shows china's growing confidence, having also just landed a rover on mars. are china and the u.s. now technical equals? "the u....