China's space programme: Five things to know
Since the December 14, 2013 landing, China has built a crewed space station, sent a robotic rover to Mars and become the first nation to make a controlled landing on the far side of the Moon. President Xi Jinping has described building China into a space power as "our eternal dream". Here are five things to know about this space programme: A slow start Chinese leader Mao Zedong declared his nation's space ambitions soon after the Soviet Union launched the world's first satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957. Читать дальше...