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September 16, 2014

Astronauts eye China's future space station
Beijing (XNA) Sep 16, 2014
Astronauts from around the world have expressed interest in China's future space lab and station, hoping to cooperate with their Chinese counterparts on the Tiangong space station. Meeting in Beijing for the 27th annual meeting of the non-governmental Association of Space Explorers (ASE), astronauts from Russia, the United States and other countries visited Beijing Space Flight City, one of China's major space science and technology facilities. Dumitru Prunariu, president of ASE and Romania' ... read more

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