Launch of the Space Station in China is scheduled for 2018

Almaty. March 5. Silkroadnews - Space Station will be launched in China in 2018, and in 2022 will be already completed the whole process of its construction, said the agency "Xinhua".
According to the deputy of National People's Congress (NPC), the chief designer of China's manned space program Chang Baynan, the project involves the creation of a space station designed for the set of functional compartments of combined model, there are plenty of all kinds of research, Chinese scientists are working together with foreign experts.
He noted that the complexity of the space station is the duration of orbital flights, which involve the use of special connecting technology and additional fuel.
Ch.Baynan also stressed that the launch of the device "Tiangong-1" in 2011 and the upcoming launch of the device "Tiangong-2" in 2016 are just testing renewable technologies of life support".