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Post by Paulo on Oct 4, 2003 11:48:10 GMT
Post anything here to to do with 'things' from outer space! Here's my contribution! The items can be serious or funny! Cheers, Paulo ;D  Source: Metro, Friday, October 3, 2003 |
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Post by Paulo on Oct 15, 2003 10:01:34 GMT
CHINA'S FIRST MAN IN SPACE
China has successfully launched its first manned space flight, becoming only the third country to put a man into orbit.
Astronaut Yang Liwei told the team on the ground: "I feel good, see you tomorrow."
The Shenzhou V rocket - "divine ship" in Chinese - blasted off from the Gobi desert at 0200BST.
It is carrying just one "taikonaut" - 38-year-old Liwei.
The rocket will orbit the earth 14 times before returning in 21 hours time.
'Historic step'
China's Communist Party chief and state president Hu Jintao hailed the launch as an "historic step" for China.
He said it was "the glory of our great motherland and a mark for the initial victory of the country's first manned space flight and for the significant, historic step of the Chinese people in the advance of climbing over the peak of the world's science and technology".
Only America and the former Soviet Union have put men into space.
State media have hailed the spacecraft as China's most sophisticated.
"The rocket that will launch the Shenzhou V spaceship is the best of all," the official China Daily quoted Huang Chunping, commander-in-chief of rocket systems, as saying.
"It is of superior quality and has stood our most stringent testing."
Secrecy
A veil of secrecy surrounded the launch and the ruling Communist party would not allow the blast-off to be televised live.
A successful mission would mark the crowning moment for a space programme launched by Mao Zedong in 1958 but which quickly fell far behind in the Cold War "space race" rivalry that saw the United States put a man on the moon in 1969.
A year later, China launched its first satellite aboard a Long March rocket, which orbited the Earth blaring out the Cultural Revolution anthem The East is Red.
Yang, a lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army selected from a pool of 14, is the son of a teacher and an official at an agricultural firm.
Last Updated: 05:23 UK, Wednesday October 15, 2003
Source: Sky News
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Post by Miss Melissa on Oct 16, 2003 21:00:53 GMT
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Post by Pina on Oct 16, 2003 21:50:02 GMT
Get a life... will ya, people?  |
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Post by Pina on Oct 16, 2003 21:51:41 GMT
Where? Where?
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Post by Pina on Oct 16, 2003 21:52:45 GMT
This is kinda cool!
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