China on Thursday successfully launched the core module of its first space station, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported, as President Xi Jinping pledges to make the Asian country a space power.Later in the day, Xi hailed the success of the launch, with Xinhua quoting him as saying it "marks that China's space station construction has entered the full implementation stage, which lays a solid foundation for the follow-up tasks."As the Communist-led government has been steadily moving ahead with space development projects in recent years, expectations are growing that the competition bet…READ FULL ARTICLE
