Beijing museum showcases China's space achievements

Visitors wait in a line in front of a model of China's second space laboratory, the Tiangong II, at the China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing, on Sept 17, 2016. [Photo/IC]

China's space industry has made great achievements since 1956. To showcase these big moments, the China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing is holding an exhibition which will run until the end of this year.

Tiangong II, the nation's first spacecraft with a modular design, was lifted off atop a Long March 2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gobi Desert on Sept 15.

The lab will undergo preparations in space for about a month before the Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft, in a flight scheduled for mid-October, will take two astronauts to the lab. The astronauts will stay inside the lab for 30 days.