Today , China is a lot closer to completing theirsuborbital blank space stationplans : the unmanned Shenzhou 8 ballistic capsule has automatically rendezvoused and tail with the space labTiangong-1 . It ’s the third space agency ever to achieve accomplish this feat .
https://gizmodo.com/why-you-should-worry-about-chinas-first-space-station-5845141
The first two were the Soviet Union and the European Space Agency . The Chinese space agency , the moorage operation was flawless .
This is not a small exploit . First , it demonstrates that they could execute a of the essence operation required to set up a blank space theme . But even more significantly , orbital rendezvous and moorage is essential to found missions to the Moon and Mars . This shows that China can palm this must - have demand .
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