2011, China Start creating Space Station

The station will provide a safe haven for China's astronauts to conduct research

China plans to launch the first module space station next year. According to Xinhua news agency, the laboratory module named Tiangong 1 or 'Heavenly Palace' will be launched in a modified version of the Long March 2F rocket.

Tiangong 1 has assembled and will soon be tested. For starters, as VIVAnews quotes from TGDaily, March 5, 2010, Tiangong 1 will be used as a station to dock for another spaceship.

There are three landing mission planned in the next two years, the spacecraft Shenzhou-8, the Shenzhou-9, and the Shenzhou-10, each of which carries one or two person crew. Laboratory weighing 8.5 tonnes is 30 feet long, and three crew will be on duty there.

One government official said that the landing station will provide a safe haven for China's astronauts, the astronauts to live and conduct research in zero gravity zone.

Tiangong 1 is scheduled to slide this year, but postponed due to technical reasons. There is no timetable for certain when the space station completed Hereinafter these. China also plans to launch the second moon mission by the end of this year