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China will have its own space station around 2020 本文作者： 21ST  期号：435??阅读数：1045 评论 ??打印 ??收藏 HAVE you heard of the International Space Station (ISS)? Launched (发射) in 1998, it was built for scientific research by the US, Russia, Japan, Canada, Brazil and European Space Agency (欧洲航天局).Now China is planning to build its own space station. The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said the space station is planned to complete around 2020. According to the office, the space station, weighing about 60 tons, will be made up of three modules (舱).“The 60-ton space station will be rather small compared to the ISS (419 tons), and Russia’s Mir Space Station (137 tons) which served between 1996 and 2001,” said Pang Zhihao, a researcher and editor-in-chief of the Space International magazine.Pang said it would be the world’s third multi-module space station, and that it will require more advanced technology than a single-module space lab.What will the name of China’s first space station be?According to Wang Wenbao, director of the CMSEO, officials wanted to name the space lab “Tiangong”. But the office wants advice from the public.“We now feel that the public should be involved in the names as this is a big project for our country,” Wang said.The public can send suggestions for the space station, to websites including or e-mailed to kongjianzhan@. The name will be decided before the end of September.21ST Why send a man into space? 神州五号展翅欲飞，中国人将实现九天揽月之梦。 CHINA will become the third nation to independently send a man into space with the launch (发射) of the spacecraft Shenzhou V this month.After four unmanned test flights, the spacecraft will spend about 24 hours in space on its first piloted journey.Powered by the rocket Long March 2F, it will set off from Jiuquan Space Launch Centre in Gansu Province. It is likely to land in Inner Mongolia.Long before Russias Yury Gagarin became the first human to orbit (绕轨道飞行) the earth in 1961, man was exploring