China Launches 'Heavenly Palace-1' Into Space; Takes Step Toward Station
When the night launch from the launch pad at the edge of the Gobi Desert in China today, put it in an unmanned Tiangong-1 module ("The Heavenly Palace-1") in orbit and began a ten-year project, which aims to build its own space station.
The module "Research on China's agricultural land with special cameras, as well as experiments on crystal growth in zero gravity," he told The Associated Press Then, in the coming years.:
"China plans to launch an unmanned Shenzhou 8 ... satellites to practice docking maneuvers remotely controlled with the module, possibly in the coming weeks. Two more missions, at least one of them inhabited, was to end with him next year for more practice with the astronauts stay a month.
Xinhua, China's official news agency says that "Tiangong-1, or" Heavenly Palace, 1, "speaks of a dream home to Chinese folklore, long thought of as a secret place where the gods live."
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The module "Research on China's agricultural land with special cameras, as well as experiments on crystal growth in zero gravity," he told The Associated Press Then, in the coming years.:
"China plans to launch an unmanned Shenzhou 8 ... satellites to practice docking maneuvers remotely controlled with the module, possibly in the coming weeks. Two more missions, at least one of them inhabited, was to end with him next year for more practice with the astronauts stay a month.
"The module is 8.5 tons ... stay in the air for two years after two experimental modules was launched for more testing before the season got underway today into three sections between 2020 and 2022. "
Xinhua, China's official news agency says that "Tiangong-1, or" Heavenly Palace, 1, "speaks of a dream home to Chinese folklore, long thought of as a secret place where the gods live."
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