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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...

Proclamation signed two years earlier. >> if the union soldiers and the united states colored troops had not arrived here in galveston i don't think they would have enforced it to this day. >> reporter: which is why residents here say this history still matters. what do you hope that people take away when they walk by and see this work of art? >> i want people to be inspired and hopefully learn something they didn't know before they saw the work of art. >> reporter: a work of art hong the past. morgan radford, nbc news, galveston, texas. china took a leap forward today in the new space race....

Soldiers rode into texas to tell slaveholders they had to respect the emancipation proclamation signed two years earlier. >> if the union soldiers and the united states colored troops had not arrived here in galveston i don't think they would have enforced it to this day. >> reporter: which is why residents here say this history still matters. what do you hope that people take away when they walk by and see this work of art? >> i want people to be inspired and hopefully learn something they didn't know before they saw the work of art. >> reporter: a work of art hong the past. morgan radford, n...