Stig Östlund

tisdag, december 29, 2009

Kina

Second probe to moon next year
By Xin Dingding (China Daily)Updated: 2009-12-29 07:49


Another spacecraft launch likely in 2010 to prepare for space lab
China plans to launch Chang'e-2, the country's second lunar probe, at the end of 2010, space authorities announced yesterday.
The design and production of Chang'e-2 is complete, and the lunar orbiter is undergoing ground tests, the State Administration of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense said yesterday in a news release.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


China became the third nation - after the US and Russia - to send people into space when Yang Liwei went into orbit aboard the spaceship Shenzhou-V on Oct 15, 2003. Three other astronauts were sent to space in Shenzhou-VII and carried out the country's first space walk in September 2008./China Daily

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