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China’s historic first space docking in 2011 – SCMP archive

Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Tuesday, November 3, 2026 at 8:15 AM · 1 min read
China’s historic first space docking in 2011 – SCMP archive — Beijing Business news

This article was first published on November 4, 2011. China a step closer to building its own space station by Stephen Chen Encouraged by yesterday (November 3, 2011) morning’s historic rendezvous and docking of the Shenzhou VIII spacecraft, Chinese authorities said construction of a space station will begin as soon as 2013. “We will do two more rendezvous and docking flights next year,” said Wu Ping (武平), spokeswoman for the manned space programme, at a press conference in Beijing yesterday....

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