China Plans Crewed Space Station By 2020 If Future Missions Succeed

GLASGOW, Scotland – China’s human spaceflight program plans to build on the success of the Shenzhou 7 mission to launch a simple orbiting “space lab” by 2011 and assemble a human-tended space station from several of the labs by 2020. Sun Laiyan, administrator of the China National Space...

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