Pak among invitees to watch China's manned space flight launch

September 16, 2016 17:16

China has invited scientists from Pakistan, Germany, France, Italy, Russia and the EU to watch the launch of its next month's manned space flight to send two astronauts to join a space lab which has been put into orbit, a media report said today.

The scientists were invited to watch the launch of Shenzhou 11 capsule from Inner Mongolia next month, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.

The capsule will be propelled by a Long March 2F rocket similar to the one which put the experimental space lab Tiangong-2 into orbit last night without a hitch.

The Tiangong-2 launch was telecast live on state TV. China has been helping Pakistan's space programme. It launched Pakistan's communication Satellite PAKSAT-1R in 2011.

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