So while China's achievement today is impressive, it's on the trailing edge of spaceflight technology: the US and Russia docked with their own orbital space stations in the early 1970s - and even with each other in Apollo and Soyuz capsules in 1975. So its congratulations to the Chinese space agency - but the landing of the X-37B only serves to show them how far they have to go.
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