09-07-2017 14:03 via yahoo.com

China tests self-sustaining space station in Beijing

By Natalie ThomasBEIJING (Reuters) - Sealed behind the steel doors of two bunkers in a Beijing suburb, university students are trying to find out how it feels to live in a space station on another planet, recycling everything from plant cuttings to urine."I'll get so much out of this," Liu Guanghui, a PhD student, who entered the bunker on Sunday, said."It's truly a different life experience."President Xi Jinping wants China to become a global power in space exploration, with plans to send the f
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