China’s Astronauts Train In Up-To-Date Facility

Credit: FRANK MORRING, JR./AW&ST
China’s new batch of astronauts will spend a lot of time at a gleaming new facility in this capital’s northwestern suburbs, learning how to fly the Shenzhou spacecraft from the men and women who developed its life-support systems and simulators. Founded in 1968, the China Astronaut Research and...

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