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Homemade Suit For Chinese Spacewalk
Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2007 China is on schedule to have a man walk in space for the first time next year after engineers finished the design of a home-grown suit for the mission, state press reported Monday. The launch of Shenzhou VII, China's third manned space flight, will take place in 2008 with two of the three astronauts likely to take the nation's first-ever spacewalk, rocket engineer Huang Chunping was quoted as saying. China had previously announced that the flight of Shenzhou VII had been pushed back from 2007 to 2008 so engineers could perfect a homemade space suit to be used in the walk. "The design of the space suits has been completed but they still need to be tested," the chief consultant to Shenzhou VII mission, Qi Faren, said as he outlined the 2008 schedule, according to the Beijing Times. Huang, a leading rocket engineer on the project, meanwhile told the Beijing Morning Post that two astronauts may have a chance to walk in space. In April last year, Chinese space officials said the flight would likely take place in September 2008, only weeks after Beijing hosts the Olympic Games. Huang insisted that the flight was not being timed for the Olympics, but said preparations were advanced enough that the flight could be launched ahead of the Games in August, the paper said. China became the third nation to place a man in space after the former Soviet Union and the United States, when Yang Liwei piloted the Shenzhou V on a short mission in October 2003. Two years later, the Shenzhou VI carried two astronauts into space on a five-day mission.
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China To Prioritize Three Areas In Space Program
Beijing (XNA) Mar 05, 2007China will prioritize three areas of space technology including satellite navigation systems in the next two decades, according to a report released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The other two areas are remote sensing and space communications, according to the report on high technology development released by the Academy. |
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