China charts its next steps in outer space (MSNBC)

神舟5号の打ち上げが成功したとして、その後の中国の宇宙への意図を分析した記事。とても詳しく解説されてる。必読。

For example, look at the solar panels mounted on the craft's service module and on its orbital module. They provide three times the power used on the Russian Soyuz, which acts merely as a ferryboat from Earth to a space station and back. Shenzhou's orbital missions will be more sophisticated than that.(...)
And Chinese engineers have mounted a pair of solar panels on the orbital module, which in the Russian Soyuz variant has none, because it is discarded after the crew returns to Earth. Instead, on Shenzhou missions the orbital module remains behind in orbit as a mini-space station with long-term experiments of its own.