The milestone marks a huge accomplishment for its nascent space program, which has made steady progress over the years.
China also boasts a human spaceflight program with an operational space station, including crew and cargo transport spacecraft.
Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty ImagesIn the International Space Station (ISS) partnership, the US, Europe, Japan and Canada also continue to move forward with space exploration.
Instead of expanding, its space program has been in decline for several years.
The lamentable state of Moscow’s space program is just the latest confirmation of that.
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