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Chinese will practice docking with space module
http://www.space.com/12647-china-spa...-1-launch.html
It's not really a space station, more a pressurised bathroom-sized room in space. My guess is that the Chinese are practicing docking to assemble a large spaceship in space with which they'll do a manned flyby of Mars or even a landing on Phobos. It's the logical thing to do and would leapfrog the U.S. manned Moon landings. In addition, to upstage the Chinese the U.S. would be forced to perform a manned Mars landing which would be extremely expensive and dangerous. Chances are that the Chinese would therefore keep their space crown for quite a few years, maybe decades. If I were the U.S. I'd start planning for a manned Mars flyby soon... |
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