Foreign media praise launch of first cargo spacecraft
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Updated: 2017-04-21 16:51
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China marks milestone
China has launched its first domestically engineered cargo spacecraft, a crucial step in Beijing's goal to launch and resupply a manned space station by 2022.
The crowning achievement of China's ambitious space programme
Sustaining a manned space station would be the crowning achievement of China's ambitious space programme, whose budget, though dwarfed by that of the US, is set to triple by 2026.
-- Financial Times
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