China to Launch Space Station in 2010

UPDATED: The People's Republic of China will launch the nation's first space station called the 'Tiangong-1' or "Heavenly Palace-1" in 2010 and it will dock with a Shenzhou-8 spacecraft in orbit around the Earth in 2011, Chinese state media has reported. The planned 2011 docking would be remotely carried out by scientists on the ground and would not involve taikonauts, the report said, [Chinese Video]. However, a more recent report from the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) meeting in Beijing is that Shenzhou-9 spacecraft with taikonauts aboard will dock with the space station and attached Shenzhou 8 attachment in 2011.