China starts manned space station project

Monday, 29 August 2011 20:38 Written by People Daily

A project to construct China's first manned space station has been officially launched and it is expected to be completed by around 2020, when a large scale national space laboratory will be also set up, according to a spokesman from the China Manned Space Engineering Project on Oct. 27. It was reported that the manned space station project included two stages of construction. By 2016, a space laboratory is expected to be developed and launched with breakthroughs in key technologies, inc ...