the shenzhou 11 lifted off on monday from the country's inland launch center. >> translator: the shenzhou 11 has been successfully launched. >> a c congratulatory message fm president xi jinping was read out at the launch center. premier li visited the mission control center in beijing to thank scientists and engineers. chinese officials say the spaceship is scheduled to dock with the unmanned tiangong 2 space lab within two days. the lab went into earth's orbit last month. the docking will take place about 393 kilometers above the planet, that's roughly the same altitude as china's planned space station. the two male astronauts will stay in n the space lab for 30 days conducting scientific experiments. >> translator: i'll make a maximum effort to build and develop the chinese space station. >> this will be the longest mission in the history of china's space program. scientists want to use the mission to improve china's technology and accumulate know-how to build the space station by 2022. >>> china's space program has been years in the making. it conducted its first manned spaceflight 13

two astronauts were aboard the shenzhou-11 when it lifted off. they will be in space for 33 days and will conduct experiments related to medicine, physics and biology. since october of 2003, china has completed five manned space flight missions -- the last one took place in 20-13 and lasted 15 tatiana and brian have another look at your weather and saturday night's downpours lead to a mostly cloudy, warm and very humid sunday with patchy dense fog forming last patchy fog near the lake this morning, otherwise it is warm and humid with temps in the cloudy, windy, warm and humid with highs near 80 and just an isolated t'shower after 3pm. tonight is with lows in the lower 60s and a sw wind gusting to 30 mph. the rest of the week is sunny, stretch of weather. tuesday is mostly sunny, breezy, olerless front with highs still near of the week with highs in the mid 60s, lots of sun and a light breeze. cooler air moves into the area on thursday with highs in the upper 50s and a brisk nw wind. friday morning will see lows near 40, and incident free light tr

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