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    China launches manned space flight

    JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- Two years after China became only the third nation to launch a human into orbit, a pair of astronauts blasted off Wednesday on a longer, riskier mission after receiving a farewell visit from Premier Wen Jiabao.
    Chinese astronauts land after 5 days in orbit
    By AUDRA ANG
    Associated Press

    BEIJING — A space capsule carrying two Chinese astronauts landed early Monday after five days in orbit and the men were "in good health," the government announced, as a small army of rescue and medical workers rushed to greet the country's second manned space mission.

    The capsule touched down by parachute in the country at 4:32 a.m. local time in the country's northern grasslands, the official Xinhua News Agency and state television reported.

    The astronauts, Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, blasted off Wednesday — their space mission an effort by the communist government to promote an image as an emerging technological power. It came two years after the country's first manned space flight.

    "We feel good, our work is going smoothly and our life is happy," Fei was quoted as saying by Xinhua in a brief satellite hookup this evening, before heading back to Earth. "We will do our utmost to fulfill the mission."

    Officials set up the primary landing site at Siziwangqi in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia and a backup site in Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert of China's northwest, where the capsule was launched Wednesday.

    "The mission has accomplished the planned experiments and accumulated valuable technical data and experiences for the development of China's manned space program," Xinhua said today.

    China is only the third country to send humans into orbit on its own, after Russia and the United States — a source of tremendous national pride as the communist government tries to cement its status as a rising power and help prepare for a moon landing by 2010 and the eventual creation of a space station. Shenzhou means "divine vessel."

    China Central Television said in its evening broadcast that everyone involved in the mission was "excitedly preparing for the return." It showed scientists huddling in groups over computers at Beijing's command center, as well as meteorologists monitoring the weather.
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3398811

    AWESOME FOR THEM CONGRATS!!! but from next time we chinese/indians needs tomake their space flights more worthy worthy in the sense not just space walk but space exploration.
    apparently we did send a manned mission wayy back in 1984 :).
    THERE SHUD BE INCREASED RESEARCH BETWEEN CHINA-INDIA and have a own space station only if the other neighbour allows :( .
    Last edited by joey2; 19 Oct 06,, 17:24.

  • #2
    The Illumanti wishes me to inform you that you begin construction on the temple in space.

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    • #3
      I didnt quite get you sir.
      care to explain in laymans words? :P
      what does Illumanti means lol?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by joey View Post
        I didnt quite get you sir.
        care to explain in laymans words? :P
        what does Illumanti means lol?
        Illuminati is basically a mideaval group of masons & learned scholars who went against the common teachings of churches. They laid their belief in scientific experiments to bring out the truth & hence,they were banned by churches. Many scholars are believed to be associated with illuminati prominent amongst them being Galileo & Constantinople. Both of them paid the price.. Galileo was left to rot in prison & Constantinople was turned into deep-fried Constantinople.
        If at first you don't succeed, call it v1.0!

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        • #5
          so OoE wants a temple in space? :D thats not bad.. :D we can have idols of those who laid the space foundations there :D.

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          • #6
            and help prepare for a moon landing by 2010

            As a Chinese I am surprised .....
            A China-Moon landing maybe in 2020,or 2030.....
            2010..........I can't imagine how will we arrive at the moon, walk there?;)

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            • #7
              Its not feasible to walk in moon, its just moral booster waste of funds.
              its much better to do missions like britain is doing sending robots to mars and stuffs :)
              even chandrayan 1 is a very good mission.

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              • #8
                Illuminati may have its historical origins in the Masons, but it is now a word that we North Americans use to describe a secret society that runs the world. Basically a conspiracy thing. Something that's completely off the rockers. Like saying Elvis didn't die, he just went back home to Venus.
                "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by gunnut View Post
                  ...Like saying Elvis didn't die, he just went back home to Venus.
                  I saw Elvis last week.

                  Man, he looked baaaad.
                  "We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way." -President Barack Obama 11/25/2008

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by highsea View Post
                    I saw Elvis last week.

                    Man, he looked baaaad.
                    You were on Venus?
                    "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

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                    • #11
                      Elvis floats spectre-like through the atmosphere of Jupiter, munching cheeseburgers Pac-Man style.
                      HD Ready?

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