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Chinas Tiangong space station is still under construction but the astronauts aboard are already bringing aspects of Chinese traditions and culture into space.

These launches are among 60 that China plans to send into space this year, beating its own 55 launch record set last year, and the 48 launches from US soil.

The China Manned Space Agency released a video on social media platforms on Tuesday, showing that the taikonauts had decorated the orbiting core module with red lanterns, Chinese knots and paper-cutting decorations.

BEIJING, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China. TAIKONAUTS CELEBRATE LANTERN FESTIVAL Wang Yaping, a

Taikonauts keep Lantern Festival traditions alive on space station-

China has achieved a great deal in the final frontier recently, and the new document makes clear that the country plans to build aggressively on those successes.

China's aerospace sector is busy going ahead with the preparations for carrying out the nation's ambitious space exploration scheme of sending over 50 spacecraft into space in 2022, with all work of research and development, production and debugging underway in an orderly manner. The country plans to launch the Long March-8 Y2 rocket, a two-stage

From matchmaking to celebrating New Year in space – the Chinese way of welcoming the Year of the Tiger.

"[Chris] Hadfield has consistently fronted for cooperation with China in space, never acknowledging how the Chinese Communist Party seeks to dominate Low Earth Orbit and the moon to gain military dominance on Earth to impose a new global hegemony." —

31 (Xinhua) -- Shenzhou-13 crew members became the first Chinese to spend the nations most important festival -- the Chinese Lunar New Year -- in outer space.Ye held a sticker with the Chinese character "fu," meaning good luck, and wished the Chinese people "a happy Lunar New Year and a happy family."　　Though far from home, the festival sentiments are the same.