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The chinese station, called tiang-gong, or heavenly palace, is a quarter the size of the international space station but a rival. china frozen out of the iss by u.s. security concerns. but with the iss getting old china could have the only space outpost. >> this phase of the chinese space program is something theyve been champing at the bit to do for a decade now. >> reporter: the unusually public fanfare, timed for the communist partys 100th anniversary next month, shows chinas growing confiden...

This latest venture follows previous succesful milestones in chinas space program after missions to return rock and soil samples to earth from the surface of the moon, landing its first rover on mars. dean cheng is an expert on chinas space programme as well senior research fellow at the asian studies center at the davis institute for national security and foreign policy. hes in washington. how please do you think beijing will be with this launch? obviously, the successful launch is going to mak...

For china. its poured billions into becoming a space power, and its getting there fast. the chinese station, called tiang-gong, or heavenly palace, is a quarter the size of the international space station but a rival. china frozen out of the iss by u.s. security concerns. but with the iss getting old china could have the only space outpost. >> this phase of the chinese space program is something theyve been champing at the bit to do for a decade now. >> reporter: the unusually public fanfare, ti...

Going up, something about it, i guess i was being an american-born in the 60s and you know exactly what i feel so how should i feel about the fact that china is going in, theyre building a space station and that may be they may start to take the lead with respect to space? >> first of all, congrats to the chinese and their astronauts, they are having a great view of the earth and also, congratulations to them on that. i wish them the best. china has certainly been doing a lot in space. they rece...

The early soviet space program, of bugging mechanisms, all of the stuff they used to spend their gdp on. we always do find out years later. dont we? >> oh, yeah. no question. by the way, i assume its not the, you know, black arts with sex tapes or whatever but for some reason, clearly, mr. trump was an active agent without guidance of russian foreign policy. mr. biden all he has to do is act like the democrat, the public official, the man of honor. he has great people with him tony blinken and l...

Increasingly ambitious space goals. as president xi jinping has put it, china will eventually become a, quote, unquote, great power in space. this mission comes on the heels of two recent successful launches of rovers, both to the moon and to mars. as we mentioned, this mission is the third launch in a series of 11 missions aimed at building the countrys first space station. in late april, they have launched the core module of the space station, and a few weeks ago, they launched a cargo spacecr...

The u.s. congress passed a law because critics have long linked chinas space program to its rising military ambitions. indeed when you look at these three astronauts, theyre all officers and pilots from the peoples liberation army. and the commander actually holds the rank of a major general. but interestingly, rosemary, we have interviewed him back in 2015. he said one of his favorite movies was "gravity." in that movie, the american astronaut was saved actually by the chinese. but giving the r...

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An interview with Pascal Claudel, EUSPA chief operating officer. The European GNSS Agency (GSA), has evolved into the European Union Agency for the Space Program (EUSPA), with an expanded mandate and new responsibilities