China today launched her 2nd female astronaut Wang Yaping, along with two male astronauts to space. In a textbook launch the Long March 2F rocket took off from the Jiuquan spaceport at 17:38 Beijing time (09:38 GMT/ 15:08 IST) - a few minutes back.
What isn’t much talked about is the 48 year old commander of the mission, Nie Haisheng, is going up on his second space journey. He was on board of the Shenzhou-6 spacecraft launched in 2005 and will be the 2nd Chinese to go up twice.
Till now 8 Chinese have gone to space and the first of them - Yang Liwei - in Shenzhou-5 spacecraft is the first non-American, non-Russian man to go up *solo* in space. Every other astronaut apart from those 3 counties have never gone to space without a companion - a US or Russian/Soviet companion.
:-P
The 3rd man in Shenzhou-10 manned mission is Zhang Xiaoguang, who will become the 10th Chinese space farer.
Look at that beautiful launch. Forget sending woman to space - let ISRO give us such clear pictures!
The launch was considered crucial for the new political leadership of President Xi Jinping who took office late last year. The importance attached to the launch was underscored by Xi, who attended a see-off ceremony for Chinese astronauts and also watched the launch of the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft.
BTW Shenzhou-8 was an unmanned mission, a technology demonstrator to test out the automatic docking of Shenzhou-8 with Tiangong-1 space module.
What isn’t much talked about is the 48 year old commander of the mission, Nie Haisheng, is going up on his second space journey. He was on board of the Shenzhou-6 spacecraft launched in 2005 and will be the 2nd Chinese to go up twice.
Till now 8 Chinese have gone to space and the first of them - Yang Liwei - in Shenzhou-5 spacecraft is the first non-American, non-Russian man to go up *solo* in space. Every other astronaut apart from those 3 counties have never gone to space without a companion - a US or Russian/Soviet companion.
:-P
The 3rd man in Shenzhou-10 manned mission is Zhang Xiaoguang, who will become the 10th Chinese space farer.
Look at that beautiful launch. Forget sending woman to space - let ISRO give us such clear pictures!
The launch was considered crucial for the new political leadership of President Xi Jinping who took office late last year. The importance attached to the launch was underscored by Xi, who attended a see-off ceremony for Chinese astronauts and also watched the launch of the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft.
BTW Shenzhou-8 was an unmanned mission, a technology demonstrator to test out the automatic docking of Shenzhou-8 with Tiangong-1 space module.
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