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When China’s newest astronauts, Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, arrived in
orbit earlier this year, they docked at some impressive digs. Specifically:
the orbital laboratory Tiangong-2 (Heavenly Palace 2), which is more than 34
ft. long and nearly 14 ft. wide and includes an exercise area and a medical
-experiment bay. Yes, that’s all modest compared with the multimodule
International Space Station (ISS), which is roughly the size of a football
field, but it’s a remarkable machine all the same. China, after all, built
Tiangong-2 on its own, just over a decade after launching its first man into
space; the ISS is a collaboration among 15 nations, including space
veterans like the U.S. and Russia. China’s next move: launching the core
module for a much bigger space station, set to happen sometime in 2018. |
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