Chinese Astronaut Makes It Back Safely

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday October 15, 2003 @01:38PM from the collective-happiness-levels-high dept.

brindafella writes "SpaceDaily is reporting that China's historic first manned space mission has ended with the safe return of its first astronaut Lieutenant Colonel Yang Liwei, 38, who landed just before 6.30am Beijing time (2230 UTC 15/10) at the designated recovery zone north east of Beijing. The capsule has been recovered and opened and the pilot is very much alive, 'and doing autographs.' Furthermore, 'Premier Wen Jiabao was seen on television talking to Yang on the phone and smiling widely and clapping after he hung up.'"

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That's Great by SoSueMe · 2003-10-15 13:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Wooo Hooo!
Next story please.
GPL by zxm · 2003-10-15 15:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How about if Chinese applied GPL to her space technology ? In the IT industry, if your rivals are too powerful, you should make your products open source, then perhaps you will survive them longer. I think that the GPL is just the same as "The People's War" invented by Chair Mao.

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