China Targets 2022 For Space Station Completion

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday September 11, 2014 @01:29AM from the neighbors-for-the-ISS dept.

Taco Cowboy writes: According to Reuters, China is aiming for 2022 to get its first space station operational. "China's leaders have set a priority on advancing its space program, with President Xi Jinping calling for the country to establish itself as a space power." After Chinese astronauts docked with the country's experimental space lab last year, they're planning the launch of another laboratory in 2016. Launch and construction of the new space station's core is planned for 2018, and their goal is to complete it by 2022. China insists that its space program is for peaceful purposes.

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Re:Every space program is for peaceful purposes by tomhath · 2014-09-11 01:59 · Score: 3, Insightful

Every single space program* is currently for peaceful purposes.
Every space program from the 1950's on has been primarily for two purposes: 1) Espionage 2) Missile technology. Science is a distant third but has always been used as the front for PR purposes.