16 December 2014
Wang Zhaoyao, Director of the China Manned Space Agency, and Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director of European Space Agency signed an agreement concerning cooperation on human spaceflight activities on 11 December in Beijing. Under this Agreement, three potential cooperation areas are identified:
(a) implementation of joint scientific experiments and studies in different fields by utilising in-orbit infrastructures (such as the ISS and CSS - Chinese Space Station) and ground facilities, including space life and physical sciences, microgravity research, space biology and medicine, and technology research;
(b) astronaut selection, training, medical operations and astronaut flights;
(c) space infrastructure cooperation in human exploration of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and beyond.
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