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China has released very few details about the space plane it is developing, not even a single simulation or diagram explaining its shape. The above illustration shows a simulation of the Rockwell X-30 space plane, which was canceled in 1993. Source: James Schultz, NASA.

China is developing a multipurpose space plane that will be launched for the first time in 2020

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Launch of the Tiangong 2 space station from the Jiuquan Spaceport in the Gobi Desert in northwest China aboard the Long March 2F launcher. Source: China's official news agency Xinhua.

China has successfully launched the Tiangong 2 space station

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"The world's largest radio telescope" in Pingtang City, Guizhou Province, China. Photo: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), the Australian organization that built the telescope components

China has installed the last panel in the world's largest radio telescope

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A model of the Chinese spacecraft to Mars as presented at the exhibition in 2015. Photo: (Credit: China Daily/Long Wei)

China will launch a combined rover, lander and rover mission to Mars in 2020

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The simulation of the previous space station, Tiangong 1 (right vehicle), which will be very similar to the new space station, docks with the Shenzhou spacecraft (left vehicle), which carries the Techonauts. Source: China Manned Space Engineering Office.

After a three-year absence, China will return to space this year with a new station

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Simulation of the docking of the Shenzhou spacecraft at the Chinese Tiangong 1 Space Laboratory. Image: Chinese Government Space Agency. Simulation of the docking of the Shenzhou spacecraft at the Chinese Tiangong 1 Space Laboratory. Image: Chinese Government Space Agency. Chinese space Guangdong 1. Image: Chinese Space Agency

China plans to send three astronauts to its space lab this summer

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The Apollo 11 crew - the pioneers of the moon landing. From left to right: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collin and Buzz Aldrin. Photo: NASA

Until 2020 we will not reach the moon

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The first Chinese spacewalk was successfully completed

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China has almost finished mapping the moon

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Shenzhou 7 – China is preparing for its third manned space flight and first spacewalk

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The Chinese lunar exploration program - the beginning of the second phase

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China announces that in 2009 its second unmanned spacecraft will be launched to explore the moon

The Shanghai 1 spacecraft has reached lunar orbit

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The Chinese spacecraft was launched to the moon

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Japan and China will send unmanned spacecraft in the coming month

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The Chinese lunar probe Shanghai-1 will be launched in the second half of 2007

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China will launch a manned spacecraft by 2004

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