China opens space center to reporters
(AP)
Updated: 2006-06-29 09:20
China carries on space projects with other nations, including a pair of
scientific satellites launched with the European Space Agency and an
Earth-mapping project with Brazil.
The next Chinese manned space flight is due next year. Officials say they
also want to send up a space station and land a robot probe on the Moon by 2010.
At mission control, rows of technicians' desks equipped with computer screens
stood empty Wednesday. A wall-mounted video screen showed scenes of Nie and Fei
aboard their Shenzhou VI capsule.
At the astronaut school, which its director called the "key site" for
training, Yang met reporters in a three-story-high room with a full-size model
of a Shenzhou capsule for practice.
"The development of manned space flight and space resources are the common
task of mankind," he said. "We hope to further our exchanges with our
counterparts in foreign countries and learn from each other."
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