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TIL In 2014, China's first astronaut Yang Liwei joined Buzz Aldrin at the International Planetary Congress to explore possibilities for expanding human spaceflight cooperation. The movie "Gravity" was part of a discussion on rescuing astronauts in peril between space stations

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