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RE: Chinese space station

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China is shifting its space program into high gear, with recently announced goals to build a manned space station by 2020 and send a spacecraft to Mars by 2013 - all on the heels of its second robotic moon mission this year.
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Undaunted by NASA's cool response to its interest in the International Space Station, China is going it alone. It has announced plans to build its very own crewed space laboratory by 2020.
The news comes hot on the heels of a visit to China by NASA administrator Charlie Bolden that failed to produce any plans for cooperation with the US in space.
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China's ambitions to conquer space will take a big leap forward this year, as the country embarks on the most extensive space development programme in the world in decades.
The aim is to fire China towards its two long-held space dreams - to land a man on the moon and to set up a space station by 2020.
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Buoyed by the success of its first spacewalk, China on Sunday set its sights on launching a space lab in 2011 and establishing a space station in 2020.
China aims to set up a space station in 2020 and before that it will launch a "simple" space lab in 2011, Wang Zhaoyao, a spokesman of the country's manned space programme told reporters here.

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China intends to launch its own space station in 2020, according to one of the country's leading space experts.
Rocket designer Long Lehao told state media scientists were on track to send "a small-scale 20-ton space workshop" into the Earth's orbit.
Space officials later said the plan had not been finalised.

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