China will open the space station for foreign countries

China is ready to open the space station for foreign astronauts, even taking on the training to serve space missions.

People's Daily newspaper on September 18 cited astronaut Duong Loi Vi, the first Chinese to fly into space, said: The country has received so many suggestions during the construction of the dance station. new pillar, expected to be completed by 2020.

Model of the structure of China's Thien Cung 1 space station.(Photo: Internet)

Mr. Duong Loi Vi, Deputy Director of China Space Center, expressed that the country wants to train astronauts for countries and organizations in need, even meeting space tourism services for foreigner. Although not disclosing information about countries in need, but according to satellite channel Phoenix (Hong Kong), China focuses on cooperation with developing countries.

Mr. Duong's flight to space in 2003 brought China to become the third country in the world to own technology to bring people to space, after Russia and America. In 2001, China launched space into the experimental space station Thien Cung 1 , since then, it has twice successfully assembled assembled Shenzhou ships with this station. Thien Cung 1 is expected to be replaced by Thien Cung 2 station, wider, weighing about 60 tons, equal to 1/6 of the International Space Station (ISS) operated by 16 countries.

China is banned from participating in the ISS, mainly due to opposition from the US because of political differences between the two countries and concerns that Beijing's space program is closely related to military purposes. However, China still established close relations with Russia's space program, cooperating with France and Germany in experimental scientific research on astronautics.