China Plans 5-day Manned Space Mission

rune writes "Both the BBC and The Register have articles on China's next manned space mission. This time two taikonauts are planned to be on board the Shenzou VI spacecraft sometime during 2005 for about five days. There is also a brief mention of the plans of the Chinese Space Agency for lunar exploration." hrld1,kon adds a link to this article on Chinaview, the official English-language news source for the People's Republic of China.

Comments

Claustrophobia

[Anonymous Coward]

Those taikonauts presumably won't have any claustrophobia problems, after all Chinese are used to fitting up a family a 10 in a 5 m2 appartment. The rocket might even be too cozy for them. What's more, given they aren't more than 4 ft. 5 on average you can put twice as much for redundancy :)

Chinese

[cuteseal]

And yes, after investing billions of Chinese taxpayer dollars, thousands of man hours in deliberate planning, and technological breakthroughs in their space program, China discovers that there is no atmosphere on the moon.

Space...The Final Frontier.

[ylikone]

These are the voyages of the Starship, Shenzhou VI. Its 5-day mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no chinaman has gone before!