Space exploration required the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to learn how to communicate across wide distances, develop precise navigational tools, store, transmit, and process large amounts of data, deal with health issues through digital imaging and telemedicine, and develop collaborative tools that link scientists around the world.
During the next 5 years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to double the number of scientists and engineers in this area, 5,, to increase its outlays for salaries and expenses to $60 million a year; 6, to invest some $200 million in plant and laboratory facilities; 2, and to direct or contract for new space efforts over $1 billion from this center in this city.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets around distant stars, including four alien worlds roughly the size of Earth that might be the proper temperature for liquid water to form and, therefore, potentially suitable for life.
NASA refers to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration - a US organization Alibaba founder Jack Ma admires for what it has contributed to humans via technological breakthroughs.
The five prestigious universities -- Renmin University of China, University of Science Technology Beijing, Beijing Institute of Technology, China University of Political Science and Law, and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics -- have begun piloting the effort.
Ling Feng, 22, a recent graduate of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, signed a tripartite agreement between his university and a State-owned enterprise in January.