CHINA WILL LAUNCH SECOND WORKSHOP SPACE IN 2016

China will launch its second laboratory orbiting space within the next two years, another step forward in Beijing who intends to send a taikonaut on the Moon: it announced the deputy director of manned space missions, Yang Liwei.

The Tiangong-2 should be put into orbit in 2016 and expected to be reached by shuttle Shenzhou-11 and the cargo Tianzhou-1, said Yang spoke at the Congress of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) in the course in the Chinese capital and with the participation of about a hundred astronauts.