BEIJING: China, which sent three astronauts into orbit a week ago, said they would conduct the nation’s first manual space docking on Sunday – a key step to building a space station.
In a brief dispatch, the official Xinhua news agency Saturday quoted an unnamed spokesman for China’s manned space programme as saying that the highly complex manoeuvre would take place at noon the following day.
The technique is hard to master as it involves two vessels – placed in the same orbit and
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