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We all love to daydream our way into space. But some people have already ventured there in real life. That's right: astronauts. With China dispatching three astronauts to its space station for the first time, the word "taikonaut" has gone viral. Why are Chinese astronauts called taikonauts? This is episode one of our podcast series, A Thousand Whys?
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