China launches a new milestone in spaceflight (March, American, America)

[d-boy-80]

I hope they are successful. That way the American's might get off their butts.

ter becoming the third nation to master the human spaceflight, China has made its next step in human space exploration with the launch of the unmanned space module TG-1 TianGong-1. Lift-off was on schedule at the opening of the launch window at 13:16UTC on on Thursday using a Long March 2F/G (T1) launch vehicle. Launch took place from the SLS-2 Launch Pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

China launches TianGong-1 to mark next human space flight milestone | NASASpaceFlight.com

[Fred314X]

How, exactly is it a milestone, other than the fact that it was a Chinese launch? They've still got a little ways to go beyond sending an unmanned satellite into space; Sputnik was more than half a century ago.