Re: Chinese in Space
"Jerry Durand" <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:06:29 -0700 (PDT)
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On Tue, October 11, 2005 8:05 pm, David Weinshenker wrote: > Jerry Durand wrote: >> >> On Tue, October 11, 2005 7:48 pm, Alex Fraser wrote: >> > I haven't been paying a lot of attention to the world the last coupl= e >> of >> > weeks. Seems I heard somewhere that the Chinese have men in space. = Is >> > this true? >> >> Yes, a five day mission. > > When did that launch? This is new... > > -dave w > > Jiayuguan, China =97 A rocket carrying the Shenzhou 6 capsule and two astronauts blasted off Wednesday from the remote base in China's northwest. In a break with the space agency's typical secrecy, the launch was shown live on Chinese state television. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051011.wchinspac1011= /BNStory/International/