> mind boggling  its 90s russian tech with german, italian and french consolation  trained at western universitys > the technologies in the construction are derived from decades of chinese crewed spaceflight experiences, including those gained from tiangong-1 and tiangong-2 prototypes,[92] as well as the purchase of aerospace technology from russia in the early 1990s.[93] a representative of the chinese crewed space program stated that around 2000, china and russia were engaged in technological exchanges regarding the development of a docking mechanism used for space stations.[94]
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