17 May 2016
The first and only Romanian cosmonaut Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu has praised China's openness to space cooperation with all nations. Prunariu said young European astronauts are getting prepared to cooperate with China on space missions, as they have begun to take Chinese language lessons besides their training. Right now, cooperation with China takes place within the ASE, of which six Chinese astronauts have become members and China's first astronaut Yang Liwei has become a member of the executive board, according to 63-year-old Prunariu.
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