The next Chinese human space flight

 

After having successfully launched their first station, Tiangong-1, and equally successfully tested a docking between the station and a Shenzhou spaceship in automatic mode (see this article), China is getting ready to send some astronauts to Tiangong-1. Several Chinese media sources indicate that the launch could take place on 16 June 2012.

Published on 14 June 2012

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