Chinese space station plans accelerated

Posted on 17 Mar 2015 by Michael Cruickshank

China’s space agency has moved forward plans to build the first multi-module Chinese space station.

Announced during the recent Two Sessions governmental congress in Beijing, construction of the new Chinese space station will begin in just 3 years time. Zhang Bonan, the chief designer of China’s manned spacecraft system explained in the People’s Daily, that the first parts of the station will be launched in 2018 with the entire project…

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