BEIJING - China formally launched its manned space station program, aiming to build a "relatively large" manned station around 2020, a spokesman for the program said on Wednesday.

北京——中国载人航天工程新闻发言人周三表示，我国载人空间站工程已正式启动实施，2020年前后将建成规模较大载人空间站。

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BALTIMORE - a physics Nobel Laureate issued a scathing critique today of NASA's manned spaceflight program and questioned the scientific usefulness of the International space Station (iss).

据巴尔的摩2007年9月18日的消息，诺贝尔物理学奖获得者Steven Weinberg对目前美国太空总署(NASA)的载人航天计划进行了严厉的批评，并且质疑国际空间站(ISS)计划的科学意义。

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When you think about the fact that we have a permanently manned space station and the Internet, using plastic cards with pictures on them to officially identify ourselves seems a bit archaic.

人们思考一下，我们处在建立人居住永久太空站和互联网时代，如果我们仍采用有相片塑料卡确认自己身份，是否似乎有点陈旧。

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A budget proposal by President Obama cancels the American space agencys plans for manned spaceflights to a lunar station.

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Now we're going to develop a permanently manned space station and new opportunities for free enterprise, because in the next decade Americans and our friends around the world will be living and working together in space.

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The manned international space station would have funding cutbacks under the proposed budget.

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Right now, NASA is dependent on Russia for manned flights to the International Space Station until a new manned program is completed.

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