The successful launch of China’s Shenzhou-14 crewed spaceship is of great significance to global space exploration and will bring benefits to international space cooperation, said experts from all around the world.
The Shenzhou-14 crewed spacecraft was launched on June 5 from northwestern China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, sending three taikonauts, Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe, to China’s first space station combination for a six-month mission. The trio entered the Tianzhou-4 cargo craft and will cooperate with the ground team to complete the assembly and construction of the China space station, developing it from a single-module structure into a national space laboratory with three modules, the core module Tianhe and two lab modules Wentian and Mengtian.
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Natan Esmont, a senior researcher at the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told China Global Television Network (CGTN) that “launching a long-term operational space station with sustainable development will not only be an important phrase for China’s space industry but also crucial for the international space industry.”
“Such space station won’t just benefit one single country for that will make the launch meaningless. The purpose of constructing a space station is beyond cooperation for scientific and technological research and development, for it will also provide communication among countries for many other issues alongside sci-tech topics,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Russian researcher also pointed out that his country is now facing many sanctions and restrictions. Concerning the space industry, China has long been confronting such restrictions mainly from the U.S. and others. “The U.S. not only blocked its cooperation with China in space completely, but also made other countries do the same. In fact, China has designed and constructed carrier rockets which are significant for space explorations, so it needs to solve the problem and join the countries which are successfully cooperating in space. – CGTN
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