China has successfully launched an experimental module to lay the groundwork for a future space station, underscoring its ambitions to become a major space power.<br /><br />Thursday's launch brings the growing Asian power closer to matching the US and Russia and comes at a time when budget restraints and shifting priorities have held back US manned space launches.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Andy Gallagher reports on how this will affect the US' own efforts.
