Special Report: Third Manned Space Mission    BEIJING, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- China is technically capable of training foreign astronauts and aims to do so, said an official with the China Astronaut Research and Training Center on Wednesday.

    China's two successful manned space missions so far showed the country's technical ability of independently training astronauts and it was one of the center's goals to train international astronauts in future, the center's director Chen Shanguang told Xinhua.

    "International cooperation is an inevitable trend in manned space flights, which are large-scale projects with complex technologies and huge investment," said Chen.

    China worked together with France and Belgium in several medical programs during the Shenzhou-6 space mission in 2005. It has set up four monitor stations abroad for the country'...

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