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Space expert: Without space facilities, we're blind

CGTN, 30 Apr 2021
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https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-04-30/Space-expert-Without-space-facilities-we-re-blind-ZSvD6Cpa00/index.html

#China successfully sent the core module of its #space station - the #Tianhe core module - into space on April 29. Xu Yansong, director-general of the Asia Pacific Space Cooperation Organization, said that space technology is quite important for our daily life: "If you switch off space facilities for one day, you would lose everything, you lose weather forecasts, telecommunications, navigation, and basically you're blind."

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