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For china. it's poured billions into becoming a space power, and it's getting there fast. 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, hav...

Ten minutes to fully topple and the trick, don't dj that mattress when it falls on you. keep it going. that's a trip around the world in 80 seconds. lift off into space. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... lift off, lift off the soyuz. >> harris: a russian soyuz over the skies of kazakhstan carrying three astronauts including one american to the national space station. it will take two days to reach their colleagues at the space outpost where they'll prepare for unprecedented amount of traffic. a cargo from japan and london's landmark looking different today. and daredevil dancers taking offer some of the bes...