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China sets up three-step space program: officer ( 2003-10-16 10:21) (Xinhua)
Now that China's first manned space turned out to be a brilliant success, China will proceed to set up a space lab and then a space station, a senior officer told Xinhua Thursday. Circling the earth 14 times in 21 hours, the manned spacecraft,Shenzhou-5, landed on the planned area in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. "The successful mission of Shenzhou-5 is the first step of China's space program," said Zhang Qingwei, the second most seniorofficer in charge of the country's space program. The task to be performed immediately after Shenzhou-5 is to develop technologies ensuring precise docking between spaceship and orbit module, which are key to the planned setting up of China's space labs, Zhang said. After that, he said, Chinese experts will focus on developing more efficient and reliable vehicles able to launch a space stations. Zhang said that the station will prepare China for further exploration of the outer space.
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