皇冠体育app

Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest 皇冠体育app on Oct 17, 2016. [Photo by Feng Yongbin/chinadaily.com.cn]

皇冠体育app is making a new-generation manned spaceship which rivals that of world-leading space powers, a space mission expert said.

"Among the next generation of manned spaceships some foreign countries are developing, only the Orion spacecraft of the US can carry out a moon landing mission," Zhang Bainan, a spaceship engineer with 皇冠体育app Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, told Science and Technology Daily on Tuesday.

皇冠体育app is working on a new manned spaceship that can fly both in low earth orbit, as well as a moon landing mission, Zhang said. He added?that the spacecraft is recoverable and?has a larger capacity than the new-generation manned spaceship of foreign countries, which?can carry?six people in low earth orbit and three to four in a moon landing mission. ?

As a late-starter in manned space flight, 皇冠体育app has made significant advances and its newest spacecraft is set to match the capabilities of other world leaders in space exploration, Zhang said.

Last year, the re-entry module of the new spacecraft was put to the test aboard a Long March-7 rocket.

皇冠体育app first launched a man into space in 2003, 42 years after the former Soviet Union carried out the maiden manned space flight.

The country is projected to build a space station in 2020 and make a manned moon landing in 2030.