China space station story is nothing but a miracle that when they eventually get around to building a complete space station it will look nothing like Tiangong,' said Jones.'It's a test of a spacecraft that will one day be used as a cargo carrying vessel to a larger space station,' he said. China is not currently part of the International Space Station, which is run by Russia, the United States and other countries.
The U.S. says it will not test a new rocket to take people into space until 2017, and Russia has said manned missions are no longer a priority for its space programme.China meanwhile launched its second moon orbiter last year after it became only the third country to send its astronauts walking in space outside their orbiting craft in 2008.It plans an unmanned moon landing and deployment of a moon rover in 2012, and the retrieval of lunar soil and stone samples around 2017. Scientists have talked about the possibility of sending a man to the moon after 2020.China is also jostling with Japan and India for a bigger presence in space, but its plans have faced international wariness.
'With most space technology dual-use - of value to both civil and military communities - anything done by China in space will have spillover to the military, much the same as Nasa's technical advancements do in the U.S.,' said Johnson-Freese.'Tiangong is not going to immediately or directly provide China any military capabilities,' she said
The U.S. says it will not test a new rocket to take people into space until 2017, and Russia has said manned missions are no longer a priority for its space programme.China meanwhile launched its second moon orbiter last year after it became only the third country to send its astronauts walking in space outside their orbiting craft in 2008.It plans an unmanned moon landing and deployment of a moon rover in 2012, and the retrieval of lunar soil and stone samples around 2017. Scientists have talked about the possibility of sending a man to the moon after 2020.China is also jostling with Japan and India for a bigger presence in space, but its plans have faced international wariness.
'With most space technology dual-use - of value to both civil and military communities - anything done by China in space will have spillover to the military, much the same as Nasa's technical advancements do in the U.S.,' said Johnson-Freese.'Tiangong is not going to immediately or directly provide China any military capabilities,' she said
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