Superpower Race: China Launches Own Space Craft Months After US
The People’s Republic of China has launched its own spacecraft.
This is coming after the Trump administration launched the United States Space force some months ago.
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China manned Space Engineering Office said that the project was first of its kind in the country.
State broadcaster, CCTV reported that the space craft (Long March-5B carrier rocket) took off at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan, China, on Tuesday.
According to Reuters, China aims to complete a multi-module, inhabited space station around 2022 and has since been racing to catch up with Russia and the United States to become a major space power by 2030.
Donald Trump, while launching the U.S Space force in December 2019, stressed that he would make the nation’s military the best by far.
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“Amid grave threats to our national security, American superiority in space is absolutely vital,” he said
