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Published on Sep 20, 2011 by

China is poised to launch the spacecraft "Heavenly Palace" so that it can practise docking in space. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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  • go china! space exploration is for everyone!

  • Good. Let the Chinese, rebalance the space age. Every nation on the face of this planet has the right to explore the galaxy.

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  • @FrostbitexP Charming!!!!

  • @logolou

    hope you get hit by a truck...but not die. In stead get paralyzed for life.

  • woops...

  • hope i see it come down

  • @SC2Slyphen "In 2005, the director of "TsNIIMash-Export" Igor Reshetin and four employees of the same company, were arrested on suspicion of spying for China and the transfer of space technologies. In 2007 academician Reshetin was sentenced to 11.5 years in a penal colony" - The independent Chinese design? No, not heard

  • @SC2Slyphen The spacecraft "Shenzhou" was very similar to the Russian spacecraft "Soyuz". "Shenzhou" has the same layout engine as the "Union" - the instrument-assembly compartment, landing craft and home compartment. "Shenzhou" is roughly the same size as the "Soyuz". The whole construction of ship and all its systems are identical to some, a series of Soviet spacecraft "Soyuz", and the orbital module is built using the technologies used in a series of Soviet space stations "Salut" (с) wiki

  • @Trofimov174 chinese rockets are developed all on its own, Soviet Union's relation with China soured before the advent of Chinese Space Program. they developed their own rocket under their own power. no russians were involved

  • @segregator236 Are you sure that this is not a converted "Soyuz"?)

  • @Trofimov174

    Rockets - made in China

    A huge leap of Russian technology ...

  • Chinese state TV has been humiliatingly exposed as having played unofficial US anthem “America the Beautiful” during an animation celebrating the non-exploding launch of its Tiangong-1 space lab module.

    The video, showing the majestic CG animation CCTV played in celebration of the module’s launch:

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