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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. As an avid consumer of their products by future+assassin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I for one welcome our Chinese space walking overlords.

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    by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
  2. Re:Non-Chinese proof of this? by Compulawyer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hear hear!

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