Vision for Space Exploration (2004) United States President George W. Bush announced an initiative of manned space exploration on January 14, 2004, known as the Vision for Space Exploration. It included developing preliminary plans for a lunar outpost by 2012 and establishing an outpost by 2020. Precursor missions that would help develop the needed technology [...]
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Science and technology have always preoccupied China’s leaders and indeed, China’s political leadership comes almost exclusively from technical backgrounds and has a high regard for science. Deng Xiaoping called it “the first productive force.” In recent times, with Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao and their predecessors Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji all being trained engineers, [...]
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As the Chinese space program developed during the sixties, various proposals for manned spacecraft were made. Serious planning began in 1966, with initial sub-orbital test flights with animals to be made before a manned mission. However, shortly after these plans were made, several leading scientists attached to the project were denounced during the Cultural Revolution, [...]
Information industry The information industry has become China’s economic mainstay. In 2004, the added value of China’s information industry, the world’s third largest, stood at 950 billion yuan. Output value, sales and profits of electronic and telecoms manufacturing all outstripped those of traditional industries, making the greatest contribution to national economic growth. By the end [...]
Research at Harbin Institute of Technology spans a broad range of topics with a strong focus on engineering sciences. A 2009 analysis of research citations by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators found HIT among the top 1% of institutions in the fields of Material Science, Chemistry, Engineering and Physics, and No.9 in the number of [...]
Yáng Lìwěi (; born June 21, 1965 in Suizhong, Huludao, Liaoning) is a Chinese major general and military pilot and a CNSA astronaut. He was the first man sent into space by the Chinese space program and his mission, Shenzhou 5, made the PRC the third country to independently send people into space. Adapted from [...]
Shenzhou 7 was the third human spaceflight mission of the Chinese space program. The mission, which included the first Chinese extra-vehicular activity (EVA) carried out by crewmembers Zhai Zhigang and Liu Boming, marked the commencement of the second phase of the Chinese government’s Project 921. The Shenzhou spacecraft carrying the three crewmembers was launched 25 [...]
Xi’an (; Postal map spelling: Sian; historically known as Cháng’ān), is the capital of the Shaanxi province in the People’s Republic of China and a sub-provincial city. As one of the oldest cities in Chinese history, Xi’an is one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China because it has been the capital (under various [...]
space program of the People’s Republic of China is currently directed by the China National Space Administration (CSNA). Its technological roots can be traced back to the late 1950s, when China began a rudimentary ballistic missile program in response to perceived American (and, later, Soviet) threats. However, the first Chinese manned flight program only began [...]
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