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标 题: [好文共赏]欢呼中国神舟五号升空: China’s space mi
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Sun Oct 19 22:25:17 2003), 站内信件
China’s space mission lifts off
Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Posted: 0141 GMT ( 9:41 AM HKT)
(CNN) -- China has launched its first manned spacecraft becoming only the
third country in history to put a man into space, state-run Xinhua news agency
has reported.
The launch came at just after 9am local time (0100GMT) from the remote Jiu
quan launch site in the Gobi Desert, the agency said.
The Shenzhou V spacecraft carrying just one astronaut was blasted into spa
ce atop a Long March 2-F rocket.
The man chosen to pilot the flight is a 38-year-old former air force pilot
named Yang Liwei, Xinhua said.
His picture was printed on the front of Hong Kong-based newspaper Wen Wei
Po Tuesday as the man most likely to pilot the craft. (Image: Wen Wei Po front
page)
He is expected to make 14 orbits of the Earth during a flight lasting just
short of 24 hours before coming back to land in Inner Mongolia.
If it is successful the flight will bring China membership of an elite spa
ce club, making it only the third country after Russia and the U.S. capable of
putting humans into space and returning them safely to Earth.
Chinese President Hu Jintao was among a select group of top leaders and VI
Ps who witnessed the launch.
The Chinese government is banking on the launch giving a boost to national
pride and demonstrating China’s technological prowess.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/14/china.launch/index.html
The rocket, carrying astronaut Yang Liwei, blasts into space Tuesday [sic.,
should read "Wednesday"]morning.
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