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Chinese Manned Space Flight Set For Autumn

Posted by simoniker on from the vatican-city-next-on-launchpad dept.

brandido writes "According to an article at Space.com, "Chinese space officials remain on schedule for the first piloted flight of that nation's Shenzhou spacecraft. Chief designers and mission directors say Shenzhou 5 will be launched in autumn, reported the People's Daily last week." Between this, the X-Prize, and multiple launches of Mars probes in the last few weeks, it looks like the space race may be heating back up?"

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  1. Reboot America's Nationalistic Space Program? by malsdavis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I just hope with this being the chinese, the American government will restart its space program (which atm is pretty much dead) now that it has another 'evil' communist country (well sort of) to compete against. I can't wait for President Bush to announce the 'first country to put a man on mars race'.