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China Plans Manned Space Flight October 15

Posted by timothy on from the autonomous-province dept.

epmos writes "As previously reported on /., China is working toward launching a manned space flight Real Soon Now(tm). Many news sites have stories suggesting it could be as soon as a week away. The flight is expected to last about 90 minutes and complete one orbit." According to some of these stories, though, there's speculation about the flight lasting up to 24 hours.

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  1. Re:This is exactly what the world needs by sl0ppy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    unfortunately, the US and Russia probably won't be part of this space race, which may leave us behind the times.

    instead, we'll have China, India, and a few other countries making leaps and bounds, possibly passing both the US and Russia before either country figures out to re-join the space race.

    i don't think this is necessarily a "good thing".