( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “for three months.” China has announced plans to send a new telescope to probe deep into the universe as it prepared to launch the country’s next three-member crew for its orbiting space station. [CutID: <Cuts> CHINA-SPACE-house-q-WEDam.mp3 Time: 20s Title: CHINA-SPACE-house-q-WEDam Out-cue: for three months] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House […]
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China latest step in the expansion of its space station.
( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “for three months.”
China has announced plans to send a new telescope to probe deep into the universe as it prepared to launch the country’s next three-member crew for its orbiting space station.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. China says it plans to send a crewed mission to the moon by the end of the decade.
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VERBATIM: The spokesperson and deputy director general of the Chinese Manned Space Agency says the mission was part of an expansion of the space station. Three astronauts will replace a crew that’s been on the station for six months. One of the astronauts, Tang Hongbo, is a veteran who led a 2021 space mission for three months.