
China plans to begin training foreign astronauts for trips to newly completed orbiting space station
Fox News
China recently completed building the Tiangong Station, an orbitting space station. The country will soon begin training foreign astronauts for trips to the station.
Multiple countries have asked for rides to the Tiangong station, program official Chen Shanguang said in an interview with state broadcaster CCTV that aired Saturday.
"We will soon begin to select candidates from those nations for joint flights to our space station, and they will be able to work with our astronauts to carry out scientific tasks in space," Chen, deputy chief planner of China’s manned space programs, said in the interview that was republished late Monday by the official China Daily newspaper.

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