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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. Re:Non-Chinese proof of this? by 8127972 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Your skepticism is likely well placed. These are the same people who posted details about the launch hours before the actual launch took place:

    http://gizmodo.com/5054776/china-launch-success-hits-web-hours-before-actual-blast+off

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  2. Re:Non-Chinese proof of this? by MrMista_B · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh, I don't blindly trust any countries government. Rather, I trust any countries government to say only what makes them look best, true or not.

    More importantly, because just recently, China announced the exactly same story http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/25/2145209 *before* they had even *launched*...

    Well.

    Just as it's not good to discount /everything/ that some countries announce, sometimes the skepticism is well earned.

  3. Obviously a fake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Check out the video

    The cut to the long shot at the end with the guy clearly dangling from wires is hilarious! Like a bad pantomime.