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BEIJING (AP) - China plans to develop a new generation of carrier rockets with a payload capacity large enough to launch a space station, state media reported Monday.
China attaches great prestige to its space program, seeing it as a way to validate its claims to being one of the world's leading scientific nations.
China launched its first manned space mission in 2003, making it the third country to send a human into orbit on its own after Russia and the United States.
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