"Shenzhou-6" will be brought to orbit in the next year or two

China intends to launch in the next year or two the manned spacecraft "Shenzhou-6". This was announced on Thursday at a press conference in Beijing, an official representative of the Program of manned flights of the Se, Minbao.

“I think that, based on the experience of Shanzhou-5, China will launch the next apparatus of this series over the next two years,” he said, adding that China does not intend to develop a program of space “shuttles”, ITAR-TASS reports.

Over the past 4 years, the China has been launched in a total of four spaceships of the Shanzhou series.

According to reports, during the upcoming flight "Shenzhou-6" it is not planned to exit the crew members into outer space, as well as the docking of the manned ship with other space devices. The leadership of the piloted flight program noted that all this, like the creation of a space laboratory, will happen in the future.

On Thursday night, the first piloted spacecraft of China "Shenzhou-5", which was launched the day before from the Zyutsyuan cosmodrome in the north-west of the country, landed successfully . The first Chinese cosmonaut to rise into space space on a domestic ship was a 38-year-old military pilot, Lieutenant Colonel of the PRC Jan Live. He spent 21 hours in space and flew around the Earth 14 times. The space apparatus took 90 minutes to make a round around the globe.

Now China plans to start implementing other space programs, including the launch of the space probe to the moon over the next three years, and by 2020 - the launch of the probe to Mars. China plans also to create your own space station.