Red Star Rising: Is U.S. Losing the Space Race to China?

Red Star Rising: Is U.S. Losing the Space Race to China?

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On Sept. 29, 2011, the first module of a new space station blasted into orbit, initiating a new dawn of space exploration. However, this is different in one key aspect: We didn't launch the space station. China did.

Named Tiangong 1 ("Heavenly Palace 1"), China's 8.5-ton unmanned test module is the first orbital building block of what will eventually become the country's answer to the International Space Station -- a new space station, definitively not international, belonging solely to China.
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Red Star Rising: Is U.S. Losing the Space Race to China? originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2011-09-30T23:30:00Z.

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