Sometime very soon, China will be launching three
Taikonauts to their new space station, making them only the third country ever to accomplish such a feat. The station, Tiangong 1 (it means
Heavenly Palace, which sounds like a place I have a take-out menu from) was launched back in late September of last year. If you were to compare it to the first space stations launched by the old
Soviet Union and the
US (which everyone will), it seems incredibly modest and small. But that would be doing the Chinese space program a disservice, since they don't really intend it to be a space station at all.
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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/jalopnik/full/~3/t7YiKB3nTx0/chinas-new-space-station-isnt-really-a-space-station
Raffaele Alberti Josef Albisser Pierluigi Aldrovanti
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