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China declares plans for mission to the moon

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A white paper published on Thursday laid out the country’s five-year plan for the development on new satellites, spacecraft and a space station and provided the official confirmation of China’s lunar ambitions.

The landing is not expected until at least 2020 but under the government’s blueprints “new technological breakthroughs” in human space flight will be achieved by 2016.

The country hopes to complete it first space station in the same year, a goal encouraged by the successful mission to dock two unmanned spacecraft in orbit last month.

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Steven Nelson (admin)