{"id":159691,"date":"2026-11-03T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159691"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:15:38","slug":"chinas-historic-first-space-docking-in-2011-scmp-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159691","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s historic first space docking in 2011 \u2013 SCMP archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThis article was first published on November 4, 2011.<br \/>\nChina a step closer to building its own space station<br \/>\nby Stephen Chen<br \/>\nEncouraged by yesterday (November 3, 2011) morning\u2019s historic rendezvous and docking of the Shenzhou VIII spacecraft, Chinese authorities said construction of a space station will begin as soon as 2013.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will do two more rendezvous and docking flights next year,\u201d said Wu Ping (\u6b66\u5e73), spokeswoman for the manned space programme, at a press conference in Beijing yesterday&#8230;.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3373086\/chinas-historic-first-space-docking-2011-scmp-archive\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThis article was first published on November 4, 2011. China a step closer to building its own space station by Stephen Chen Encouraged by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}