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China has selected two Pakistani astronauts as candidates to train for its Tiangong space station program, marking the first time foreign astronauts will be chosen for the mission. One of the selected candidates is expected to join a future space station mission.
Astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou XXI mission successfully performed a seven-hour spacewalk outside the Tiangong space station, conducting various extravehicular activities.
The three astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station will extend their mission by approximately one month to maximize opportunities for scientific research and operations.
Large passenger jets and advanced chips, BeiDou satellites and the Tiangong space station: these large-scale science and technology projects could be part of China’s efforts to mobilise resources nationwide to speed up the development of new weapons, according to a study by researchers with China’s top defence university. China’s military modernisation has accelerated at a pace that unsettles many analysts in Washington. In the past decade alone, Beijing has rolled out a sequence of major...