Aug 31 1986
From The Space Library
The Peoples Republic of China announced that it was nearing human space flight and was m the process of choosing astronauts for its planned Space Shuttle. It had built and was using an extensive training center and had solved many of the problems space has to offer, such as maintaining life support. No date was given as to when a craft would be built. (W Post, Sep 1/86; W Times, Sep 1/86)
NASA said it had canceled 18 Space Shuttle missions over. a 5-year period for Spacelab because of the Challenger accident. The agency further stated that it planned to release a list of other scrubbed missions. (W Post, Sep 1/86)
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