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China Focus: UN official, experts call for int’l cooperation in space program

China Focus: UN official, experts call for int’l cooperation in space program

JIUQUAN, June 16 (Xinhua) — China’s space station will be an ideal international cooperation platform and the world is expecting China to escalate its space program, said a senior official of the United Nations after watching the launch of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft in the Gobi desert on Saturday. Dr. Mazlan Othman, director of the Vienna-headquartered […]

Chinese First Spacewoman Ready to Space Journey

Chinese First  Spacewoman Ready to Space Journey

This undated photo shows Liu Yang attending a training. Liu Yang, 34, is one of the three taikonauts who will be carried by the Shenzhou-9 spaceship for China’s first manned space docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module. <Xinhua/Qin Xian’an> news@theasian.asia

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