Astronauts Eye China's Future Space Station
BEIJING, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Astronauts from around the world have expressed interest in China's future space lab and station, hoping to cooperate with their Chinese counterparts on the Tiangong space station.
Meeting in Beijing for the 27th annual meeting of the non-governmental Association of Space Explorers (ASE), astronauts from Russia, the United States and other countries visited Beijing Space Flight City, one of China's major space science and technology facilities.
Dumitru Prunariu, president of ASE and Romania's first astronaut, said after visiting models of China's Tiangong-1 space lab and Shenzhou-10 spaceship that astronauts are interested due to their professional curiosity about Chinese space facilities.
"Now China will build its own space station in 2022. We heard with great interest that China is inviting the international community to be part of experiments on board the new space station," said Prunariu.
"We are glad that China [...] showed us so many things here and is so open to international cooperation," Prunariu said.
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