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Live: China to launch Shenzhou-10 Spacecraft at 17:38
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[h=1]Chinese president to watch manned spacecraft launch[/h]
[h=3](Xinhua)[/h] [h=3]14:57, June 11, 2013
[/h] JIUQUAN, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived at the Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft launch center in northwest China's Jiuquan on Tuesday to observe the mission.
Xi came into the astronauts' apartment building on Tuesday afternoon to see off Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping, who are scheduled to start their journey to space at 5:38 p.m.
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[h=3](Xinhua)[/h] [h=3]14:57, June 11, 2013
[/h] JIUQUAN, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived at the Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft launch center in northwest China's Jiuquan on Tuesday to observe the mission.Xi came into the astronauts' apartment building on Tuesday afternoon to see off Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping, who are scheduled to start their journey to space at 5:38 p.m.
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Buzz me when the chinks land on the moon.......if they can do it before 2019......they have 50 years to play catch up.
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Just learned about this too....following is cut and paste from some e-news site.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will launch its next manned space flight on Tuesday, carrying three astronauts on a 15-day mission to an experimental space lab, the National Space Administration said, in the latest step towards the development of a space station.
The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft will launch from a remote site in the Gobi desert in China's far west at 5:38 p.m. (0938 GMT), Wu Ping, spokeswoman for China's manned space program, told a televised briefing on Monday.
Once in orbit, the craft will dock with the Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1, a trial space laboratory module, and the two male and one female astronauts will carry out various experiments and test the module's systems.
They will also give a lecture to students back on earth, Wu said.
China is still far from catching up with the established space superpowers, the United States and Russia.
But the Shenzhou 10 mission will be the latest show of China's growing prowess in space and comes while budget restraints and shifting priorities have held back U.S. manned space launches.
It will be China's fifth manned space mission since 2003.
China also plans an unmanned moon landing and deployment of a moon rover. Scientists have raised the possibility of sending a man to the moon, but not before 2020.
Cheers!
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will launch its next manned space flight on Tuesday, carrying three astronauts on a 15-day mission to an experimental space lab, the National Space Administration said, in the latest step towards the development of a space station.
The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft will launch from a remote site in the Gobi desert in China's far west at 5:38 p.m. (0938 GMT), Wu Ping, spokeswoman for China's manned space program, told a televised briefing on Monday.
Once in orbit, the craft will dock with the Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1, a trial space laboratory module, and the two male and one female astronauts will carry out various experiments and test the module's systems.
They will also give a lecture to students back on earth, Wu said.
China is still far from catching up with the established space superpowers, the United States and Russia.
But the Shenzhou 10 mission will be the latest show of China's growing prowess in space and comes while budget restraints and shifting priorities have held back U.S. manned space launches.
It will be China's fifth manned space mission since 2003.
China also plans an unmanned moon landing and deployment of a moon rover. Scientists have raised the possibility of sending a man to the moon, but not before 2020.
Cheers!
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