China’s progress makes less fuss than America’s advances to the moon. But they are relentless. On October 15, the eastern superpower launched a manned space mission that has nothing to envy to the work of the West (and the Russians) in the ISS. Three astronauts, two men and a woman, left the Jiuquan launch pad, in the Gobi desert, to join the first module, called Tianhe, with a …
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