China Offers First Look At Shenzhou Launch Facilities

Credit: WILLIAM V. PARKER
Seven new Chinese astronauts will soon start their spaceflight training—including the first two women in the expanded corps of 21—as China moves ahead on a path aimed at launching a 20-metric-ton station by 2020. Like their male counterparts, the women are military pilots with at least 1,000 hr. of...

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