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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Time to fork slashdot by nmoog · 2003-10-15 14:06 · Score: 2, Troll

Wow, these racist posts are getting pretty full on - racial slurs about black americans get modded down into oblivion and racial slurs about anyone else get modded to the stars.

It seems like the time is right to split slashdot into us.slashdot.org and wholeworld.slashdot.org.

Or maybe under14s.slashdot.org and over14s.slashdot.org