Earlier this afternoon, the Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-8 successfully docked with the Chinese space laboratory Tiangong-1.
According to local media, other on-board improvements include flushing toilets and hot Chinese space food.
The Tiangong-3 will then form the backbone of the future Chinese space station, to be built by 2020.
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Earlier this month, the Shenzhou-8 successfully docked with the Chinese space laboratory Tiangong-1.
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Of particular interest about this white paper is a definite focus on moving the Chinese space program past just orbital concerns.
On June 16, China sent three astronauts into space on its first manned docking mission, a significant step towards its plan to build a Chinese space station in 2020.
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The Shenzhou themselves are based on Russia's Soyuz craft but, according to Phillip Clark, a British-based consultant and expert on the Chinese space programme, they are not a straight knock-off.
The taikonauts will remain in orbit for a few more days before returning to Earth, but the Chinese space program has not stated a definitive date as of this writing.
If all goes according to plan, the Shenzhou IX space craft should be re-connected manually to Tiangong by Sunday morning, marking a giant leap for Chinese space travel and the first stages in a permanent space station within the next 8 years.
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The test is unlikely to foster closer co-operation between the American and Chinese civilian space programmes.
As NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Beijing, the launch was a carefully planned step in a space program that aims to create a lasting Chinese presence in space.
Among the crew of Shenzhou-9 was Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman in space.
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We expect its active paying users to decline to about 1.26 million in 2012 as competition in the Chinese online gaming space continues to increase.
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When it comes to the MMO space, Chinese gamers are much more loyal than Western gamers.
Everyone in the Chinese e-commerce space feels a rush to spend like crazy now to get new customers.
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He also said he planned and designed a Sri Lankan communication satellite launched into space from Chinese soil last year.
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Moreover, the U.S. government is not entirely keen on having Chinese investment in the telecom space.
Now, both companies are in a contest to define who owns the Chinese equivalent of the Twitter space in China.
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Another article revealed Chinese interest in airborne and space-based synthetic aperture radar.
However, smartphones are a growing space for the Chinese vendor as shipments grew from 3.7 million in 2011 to 23.7 million in 2012.
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On 25 July 2011 the UNESCO space partner, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, opens an International Centre under the auspices of UNESCO1.
The cultural space created by traditional Chinese arch bridges has provided an environment for encouraging communication, understanding and respect among human beings.
Zhigang performed the first space walk by a Chinese astronaut.
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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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On view through 30 June in Malingue's white, sunny space are works by contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Huan, who uses ash to craft paintings and sculptures that denote the impermanence of human life.
The crew of the International Space Station is on alert this weekend thanks to a piece of space debris from an old Chinese satellite, which has the potential to hit the station.
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It enables the Chinese to build and operate their own space station, establish the technology that is necessary to efficiently send astronauts to the moon and beyond, build and operate fuel depots, and construct vehicles and bases in space.
Elsewhere at CES Las Vegas, another Chinese company, HiSense, occupies the floor space previously home to Microsoft, which pulled out of this year's show.
President Obama declined to keep the shuttles going, canceled the planned replacement platform for manned space flight and thereby condemned this country for the foreseeable future to reliance on Russian and perhaps, in due course, Chinese rockets to deliver our astronauts to the space station.
The Chinese, too, recognise that the uses of space do not, for the most part, require people to be up there.
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