A Nature article about China’s latest space launch yesterday, the first to cease reliance on Russian spacesuits: The craft also carries a companion satellite, which will be released once the astronaut capsule is in orbit. Flying in close formation,... ...full story at Virtual China
from Virtual China on Fri, Sep 26 2008
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