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标 题: China claims its place in space(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年10月15日13:28:30 星期三), 站内信件
【 以下文字转载自 Green 讨论区 】
【 原文由 bonjovi 所发表 】
(CNN) -- China's first astronaut Yang Liwei is in orbit following a successful
launch Wednesday morning from the Jiuquan launch site in the western Gobi Des
ert, state media reports.
Speaking from space, the 38-year-old astronaut reported back to mission contro
llers that he "feels good" and said the spacecraft is operating normally, the
state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Yang, a former air force pilot, is expected to make 14 orbits in the Shenzhou
V spacecraft before returning to Earth at a landing site in Inner Mongolia.
Quoted by Chinese media just before he blasted off into space, Yang said he wo
uld "gain honor for the People's Liberation Army and for the Chinese nation."
"I will not disappoint the motherland," he was quoted as saying. "I will compl
ete each movement with total concentration."
All being well, the flight looks set to bring China entry to an elite club of
space powers, making it only the third country after Russia and the United Sta
tes capable of putting humans into space and returning them safely to Earth.
The Long March 2-F rocket carrying the Shenzhou V spacecraft blasted off just
seconds after 9 a.m. local time (0100 GMT) Wednesday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders and VIPS were at the Jiuq
uan site to witness the launch.
Quoted later by Xinhua, Hu praised the launch as "the glory of our great mothe
rland," describing the flight as an "historic step of the Chinese people in th
e advance of climbing over the peak of the world's science and technology."
'Operating normally'
The spacecraft entered orbit at about 9:10 a.m. (0110GMT), Xinhua said.
"Shenzhou V is operating normally in orbit," the agency quoted Li Jinai, chief
commander of the country's manned space program as saying.
Earlier this week, state-run CCTV cancelled plans to broadcast live television
pictures of the launch on the advice of "space experts."
The launch took place into a cloudless desert sky.
Observers said China's leaders considered the political risks of a launch fail
ure too great to allow live coverage.
But following an apparently textbook blast off, Chinese television broke into
its regular programming to announce the launch and the news that the country's
first astronaut was in space.
No outside journalists were allowed permits to cover the event, with only a fe
w representatives of Chinese state-run media observing the launch.
Video images showed the rocket soaring into a cloudless sky, with other pictur
es from mission control showing a video feed of Yang inside the capsule.
"I feel good," Yang radioed back to mission controllers about half an hour int
o his flight, Xinhua reported.
China's space program has close ties to the military and is surrounded by secr
ecy.
Few details of the mission were announced in advance with even the launch time
kept a secret until the last moment and officials saying only that the spacec
raft would take off sometime between Wednesday and Friday.
Despite that secrecy, China's leaders are hoping that a successful flight will
boost national pride, rally popular sentiment behind the communist party and
raise the profile of Chinese technology.
The launch of China's first astronaut comes 42 years after Soviet cosmonaut Yu
ri Gagarin became the first man in space aboard Vostock 1.
Less than a month later the United States -- driven by Cold War paranoia about
the communist take over of space -- launched its first astronaut, Alan Shepar
d, on a sub-orbital flight.
Now another name joins those figures in space history as Yang Liwei takes up t
he mantle as his country's first man in space.
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