China successfully launched the crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-21, which will dock with the space station Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) and conduct scientific research, including raising mice for six months.

China’s Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew, including the youngest member of its astronaut corps, blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, Chinese state media reported. It was the ...