China wants to build its own space station in orbit by 2020

Absent from the International Space Station project (ISS), China wants to build its own space station in orbit by 2020. Chinese capsule Shenzhou X, the three astronauts on board, including a woman, connected Wednesday Tiangong-1 space lab orbiting Earth.
This maneuver successfully held two days after the launch of Shenzhou capsule X, using a Long March 2F rocket from the Gobi Desert.
Chinese astronauts plan to spend nearly two weeks on board the space laboratory, the longest in the history of China's space missions.
During this mission, astronaut Wang Yaping, the two Chinese into space, will deliver a course of Tiangong-1 space lab, a student group on Earth.
Xinhua News Agency announced that the automated procedure X Shenzhou capsule docking with Tiangong-1 orbital module was successfully completed on Wednesday at 05.18 GMT.
The Fifth Chinese manned space mission on board, called "Shenzhou-10" represents the latest step in China's space program intends to build its own space station by the end of this decade.
Module Tiangong-1 was launched into space and demonstration. It was launched in 2011 to serve as a "target" for Chinese astronauts who want to practice maneuvering space connection.
Three Chinese astronauts will practice manual docking during their stay on board module Tiangong-1, Shenzhou-X capsule disengaging laboratory and then reconnecting it to him. The maneuvers will be supervised by the mission commander, astronaut Nie Haisheng.
China is developing an ambitious space program that includes the goal of placing a vehicle for exploring the Moon in the second half of 2013. China sent its first astronaut into space in 2003 and the first woman astronaut, Liu Yang, in June 2012.

Tiangong-1 (Chinese: 天宫一号; pinyin: Tiāngōng yīhào; literally "Heavenly Palace 1") is China's first space station,an experimental testbed to demonstrate orbital rendezvous and docking capabilities.Launched unmanned aboard a Long March 2F/G rocket on 29 September 2011,it is the first operational component of the Tiangong program, which aims to place a larger, modular station into orbit by 2020.Tiangong-1 will be deorbited in 2013,and replaced over the following decade by the larger Tiangong-2 and Tiangong-3 modules.
Tiangong-1 will be visited by a series of Shenzhou spacecraft during its two-year operational lifetime. The first of these, the unmanned Shenzhou 8, successfully docked with the module in November 2011,while the manned Shenzhou 9 mission docked in June 2012.A third and final mission to Tiangong-1, the manned Shenzhou 10, docked in June 2013.


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China launched Shenzhou X spacecraft, which has a crew of three astronauts, including one woman, in the most ambitious space missions in history, according to images broadcast by television CCTV.

Long March rocket carrying the Shenzhou capsule X took off at 17.38 local time (12.38 GMT, nr) from a base in the Gobi Desert, in the eyes of the President Xi Jinping, who came to attend this crucial stage of the ambitious Chinese space program .

A few hours before the launch, Chinese state television broadcast a special live event dedicated impregnated nationalist accents. This mission "embodies the dream space of the Chinese nation," said the president. Space launch is a great opportunity for the Chinese regime to highlight people from defending state apparatus to the small screen on Tuesday declared a public holiday in China.

Shenzhou capsule left the atmosphere aboard Long March rocket launchers and connect with space module Tiangong 1 ("heavenly palace") in orbit around the Earth. The crew of three astronauts will stay for 15 days in space. Wang Yaping part of the crew, the second woman in Chinese history to reach space.

Wang Yaping, Zhang Xiaoguang and Nie Haisheng

   

"This will be the most complex mission that China has done it before," said Morris Jones, an Australian expert in space. The mission takes place exactly 50 years after the Russian Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman cosmonaut in history, made ​​a space flight, from 16 to 19 June 1963, following which the former workers in the textile industry has been declared "heroine Soviet Union. "