The Eurasian Times:

As China gears up to become the only country to have an exclusive and probably the only space station by 2024 or latest by 2030, its neighbor, India too has plans to follow suit in a few years.

Recently, the Union Minister for Space Jitendra Singh announced in Parliament that India’s first space station would be set up by 2030. The country’s long-awaited human spaceflight ‘Gaganyaan’ is slated for launch this year.

生词短语：

gear up

准备起来

follow suit

跟着做

parliament

议会

long-await

被期待已久的

spaceflight

宇宙飞行

slate

安排；选定