China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft docked successfully with the orbiting Tiangong 1 test module this week, ticking off another accomplishment for the country's manned spaceflight program. Jonathan McDowell and Joan Johnson-Freese discuss the future of China's space program, and whether a new space race is heating up.
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Jun. 22, 2012
Will China Blast Past America in Space?
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Jonathan McDowell
Author, Jonathan's Space Report
Astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, Massachusetts -
Joan Johnson-Freese
Professor, National Security Affairs
U.S. Naval War College
Newport, Rhode Island
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