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China To Launch Second Manned Mission
the_central_kingdom wrote to mention a Xinhuanet article discussing a second upcoming Chinese spacecraft launch in October. From the article: "Although Sun did not provide details about the new mission, space officials earlier said China has been preparing for the second manned venture into outer space since the first mission, piloted by Yang Liwei, almost two years ago. Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration, earlier told China Daily that Shenzhou VI will carry two men into orbit for five or six days. "
I can see my wall from up here!
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The problem with chinese space travel, is 30 minutes later you want to go into space again.
And in China, no one will notice if they don't come back. (laugh, I'm not serious...)
He was destined to go into the space exploration field.
PS - Yes, yes, I know Sun in Chinese means "grandson". Cheap joke, I know.
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Everybody was glued to the screen back when Russ^H^H^H^H the USSR was doing the space race thing, but people aren't paying as much attention to Red^H^H^H China,
One of these days, they'll invent software that can interpret the backspace button properly. Who knows what will happen then, perhaps slashdot posts won't have as many errors. Who knows! The possibilities are endless!
How good are Chinese hydrogen fuel sensors? Just wondering...
"Made in China" is on everything else in this country, so just checking.
Of course, Einstein didn't use caps, and he spelled properly, and he didn't even say that bit in caps if you want to be really picky, but you know.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
I'm devising a home-made method of getting into space. Now would you please hop into my cannon and I can shoot you into space, hazards be damned.