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Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk

Posted by timothy on from the awesome-cgi dept.

As_I_Please writes "At 8:40AM (GMT) this morning, Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang successfully spent 18 minutes in a tethered spacewalk outside the spacecraft Shenzhou 7. This is an important step in China's goal of building an orbiting space station and sending astronauts to the moon."

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  1. Old news by SL+Baur · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read about this last week on an English language Chinese news website.

  2. Sponsored by... by TheModelEskimo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...your local Walmart.

  3. Re:Non-Chinese proof of this? by calmofthestorm · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Bush administration did fake the Iraq war to scare Americans into voting Democratic. I am so sick of these liberal ploys to take over the white house.

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  4. Re:Non-Chinese proof of this? by freya_bacchus · · Score: 5, Funny

    china faked a spacewalk and the US faked a moonlanding, US still ahead

    Nothing to see here...

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