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China to build space station
China to build space station
BEIJING, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- China has announced plans to construct its own permanently manned space station. The Australian newspaper said the Thursday announcement followed the safe return to earth this week of China's first astronaut. The director of the China Manned Space Program's engineering office, Xie Mingbao, said, "The inaugural manned space flight is the first step of China's space program." He said the second step will be achieving "space walking," as well as rendezvous docking of spacecraft. The third step, he said, will be to develop a permanently manned space station. |
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