“Shenzhou 7 is an incremental but important step forward,” said Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on the Chinese space program at the U.S. Naval War College in Rhode Island.

来自罗德艾兰州的一位研究中国空间项目的专家，美国海军学院的Joan Johnson-Freese先生说：“神七标志着中国在空间领域的一个非常重要的跨越式进步。”

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The spacewalk paves the way for assembling a space station from two Shenzhou orbital modules, the next major goal of China's manned spaceflight program.

太空行走为从神州的两个轨道舱组装空间站铺平了道路。 空间站是下阶段中国太空项目的主要目标。

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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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