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Three steps of China鈥檚 manned space program

Yang Liwei carried out the first step — to send an astronaut into space and return safely — in the Shenzhou-5 mission in 2003.

The second step was developing advanced space flight techniques and technologies including extra-vehicular activity and orbital docking. This phase included the launch of Tiangong-1, a transitional platform to test the docking technology and the Tiangong-2 space lab.

The third step is to assemble and operate a permanent manned space station.

So far, a total of 16 major missions of China’s manned space program have been accomplished, with a success rate of 100 percent.


 

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