Foreign media praise launch of first cargo spacecraft

China marks milestone

China has launched its first domestically engineered cargo spacecraft, a crucial step in Beijing's goal to launch and resupply a manned space station by 2022.

The crowning achievement of China's ambitious space programme

Sustaining a manned space station would be the crowning achievement of China's ambitious space programme, whose budget, though dwarfed by that of the US, is set to triple by 2026.

-- Financial Times