The Russian space agency has launched the first stage of the International Space Station from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
The "city in space", which will sit 402 kilometres above the Earth, will take several years and cost many billions of dollars to complete.
Pallab Ghosh reports.
First broadcast 20 November 1998.
One-Minute World News 
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