By ZHANG ZHOUXIANG | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-26 07:58 Share CLOSE Photo taken on April 23, 2021 shows the combination of the core module of China s space station, Tianhe, and the Long March-5B Y2 rocket after it was transported to the launching area of the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in South China s Hainan province. [Photo/Xinhua]
Saturday marks the sixth Space Day of China. Five years after it was established in 2016, the nation has made tremendous progress in various aspects of space exploration.
On the first Space Day in 2016, Tiangong 1 space lab, China s first, had just finished its mission and fallen into the atmosphere. Tiangong 2 would not be launched until five months later. Now, with all the data collected from the two pioneers, Tianhe, the core capsule of China s multimodule space station Tiangong is already in the launch tower, and the whole space station is expected to be fully operational next
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