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[quote=BITTERSWEET,326691]He revealed that the finalized model, highly home-made, should be safer, more reliable and able to support three astronauts to fly for seven days and complete the task of space station docking. "The mass production would also allow intensive launch in a short period of time," he said. Apart from finalizing the model of China's manned spaceship, another mission of the Shenzhou-8 was to seek for a breakthrough in the orbiter docking technology, a must step for the ultimate goal of building a permanent space laboratory and a space engineering system that allow astronauts to conduct scientific experiments of larger scale. The transportation vehicles currently in use between space stations and the ground are mainly space shuttles of the United States and Russia's Soyuz spacecraft. Chinese technicians would make a history if they could finalize the design of its manned spacecraft after launching only eight space vehicles, he said. Before China commenced its space program, scientists and engineers had fierce debates in early 1980s on what kind of space vehicle to choose for China's space program. Spacecraft won out as a "consensus" for its lower costs in R&D, maintenance and operation costs as well as its higher feasibility based upon China's then technical capability. [/quote]
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