China's solo space dreams create nightmare for US

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20210513N China Mars launch

A Long March-5 Y4 rocket, carrying an unmanned Mars probe of the Tianwen-1 mission, takes off from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang, Hainan Province, China. © Reuters

TETSUSHI TAKAHASHI, Editor, Economic News Group

TOKYO -- The Academy Award-winning 2013 film "Gravity" begins with two astronauts on a spacewalk being caught in a massive storm of debris caused by a Russian missile strike on a defunct satellite.

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