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December 30th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Chinese government released a report on Thursday that reveals details about the country’s plans to grow its space program — by creating new spacecrafts, satellites and a space lab in the next five years.
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The white paper, called “China’s Space Activities in 2011,” revealed that the country will expand its space exploration efforts by 2016 and work with the international community to make contributions toward space development. The plans were released by China’s Information Office of the State Council.
“In the next five years, China will strengthen its basic capacities of the space industry, accelerate research on leading-edge technology and continue to implement important space scientific and technological projects, including human spaceflight, lunar exploration, high-resolution Earth observation system, satellite navigation and positioning system, new-generation launch vehicles and other priority projects in key fields,” the report said.
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At the top of its list: building a stronger spacecraft system by improving its launch vehicles.
“China will push forward human spaceflight projects and make new technological breakthroughs, creating a foundation for future human spaceflight,” the report said. “It will launch the Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spaceships and achieve unmanned or manned rendezvous and docking with the in-orbit Tiangong-1 vehicle.”
The country’s government also plans to launch a space lab to allow astronauts to work on space-station technologies, such as regenerative life support and propellant refueling. China will also turn its efforts toward gathering samples from the moon and “push forward its exploration of planets, asteroids and the sun of the solar system.”
Although China trails behind the United States and Russia in terms of space industry development, it’s made some big strides in the past five years.
The report emphasized that the country sent 79 spacecraft vehicles into orbit since 2006 and developed various earth-observation satellites, including disaster monitoring and forecasting systems.
“Over the past few years, China’s space industry has developed rapidly and China ranks among the world’s leading countries in certain major areas of space technology,” the report said. “Space activities play an increasingly important role in China’s economic and social development.”
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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