Chinese space station

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MartG

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Thursday 29th September 2011
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Today the Chinese have launched an experimental space station ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-1511... ). Although initially unmanned, with an unmanned rendezvous planned, it's expected that crewed launches to it will begin next year.

From info so far it seems roughly equivalent to the US Skylab in scope, but it will be inetersting how the programme develops ( and if it has any effect on the US political stance towards funding NASA )

No sign of information when you can see it on Heaven's Above yet, but I suspect it'll just be a matter of time