Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
China's Space Shuttle
According to the March 20, 1999 issue of the China Science and Technology Newsletter published by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (summarized below):
Mr. Zhang Heqi, Chief Scientist of China's National 863 Program and former Director-General of Zijinshan Observator, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has recently revealed that China would make its unmanned space shuttle launch in one or two years. China plans to spend a manned space shuttle into orbit several years later...Zhang said that China has rockets capable of launching a ten ton space shuttle into orbit. The unmanned space shuttle may carry some experimental animals. ..It was disclosed at the end of 1997 that two Chinese astronauts had graduated with excellent scores from the Russian Gagarin Space Preparation Center. It is also said that the that the two astronauts have full knowledge of how to pilot the Russian "Coalition"] space shuttle. In the meanwhile, China has screened the best fighter pilots to be the candidates to be trained for future space voyages.
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