The U.S. perfect it with putting a man on the man, then with a series of modern high tech space shuttle missions and Mars ROVERS. But now, the final frontier captains are more likely to be Russians, with their hopes for a human Mars landing someday, or Chinese, with a new China space station due within the next 8 years.
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The scene encapsulated the contradictions of modern China, the station and trains representing the height of sophistication while sealed roads and other basic infrastructure were still to follow.
"It's also essential to building China's own space station, " he told the state broadcaster China Central Television.
The scale of the dam it will be the world's third-largest hydroelectric station after China's Three Gorges and Brazil's own Itaipu is epic.
The most determined effort to develop a small, cheap guided weapon, though, is the Forward Firing Miniature Munition (F2M2, or Spike missile), from the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, California.
Beijing Daily says three astronauts will head out to China's orbiting space station this summer and spend two weeks testing the station's systems for supporting life.
Yes: Bring China into the International Space Station program.
China has promised to build this station at the end of the decade.
This goal is partially motivated by the fact that China is excluded from the International Space Station thanks to American embargoes.
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Tiangong-1 will demonstrate the critical technologies needed by China to build a fully fledged space station - something it has promised to do at the end of the decade.
Finally, China is advancing its moon and space-station program, which likely will have military missions.
The astronauts are aiming to complete China's first manned docking with the Tiangong-1 module already in orbit, an important first step towards China's aim of creating a working space station by 2020.
The success of the Shenzhou-8 mission moves China one step closer to having its own space station, a goal for their program after having been denied access to the International Space Station by the United States.
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Now William Rose, formerly McDonald's station chief of a region between India and China, has been dispatched to become the new chief executive for Donatos.
China Star takes up where Bull's previous masterpiece, Shanghai Station, leaves off.
As managing director, Henry bet heavily on international hotel chains Ramada and Renaissance, China property and infrastructure, and Hong Kong's second television station, ATV.
The Global Times and China Daily said China's railway ministry has ordered railway stations to replace their English station name signage with Pinyin.
China would only learn from us about how to operate with a civil space station.
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