- Credit: CMSEO
The director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) has called upon Chinese people around the world for a logo and a distinctive name for that country’s first crewed space station.
CMSEO’s Wang Wenbao announced the plan to have ideas and logo concepts for the space station to be sent in to an organizing committee using online polls for the next several months.
Preparations to ready a space station module and a Shenzhou-8 unpiloted spacecraft are now in progress. The first space rendezvous and docking experiment using the two craft will be implemented in the second half of 2011, according to People’s Daily Online – a stepping stone mission to help develop a larger space facility in future years.
By Leonard David