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By Irene Klotz, Seeker.com, November 3, 2016
The heavy-lift Long March-5 booster made its long-awaited debut flight on Thursday.
China on Thursday successfully launched a rocket nearly as powerful as the largest booster in the U.S. fleet. Decades in the making, the debut flight of China’s heavy-lift Long March-5 rocket marks a key step in the country’s goal to build its own multi-module space station in orbit around Earth.
“The Long March-5 is needed to lift the station modules,” said Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College in Rhode Island.
