UPDATE: Shenzhou V on its way

....CNN now has more details, and a couple of ascent photos:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/1...nch/index.html

[Thump!][Thump!][Thump!][Thump!][Door Open!}

"It's Yang Liwei!"

"We know! Sit down!"

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
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- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:05:45 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

...CNN now has more details, and a couple of ascent photos:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/1...nch/index.html

[Thump!][Thump!][Thump!][Thump!][Door Open!}

"It's Yang Liwei!"

"We know! Sit down!"

OM

Explain...?

OM wrote:

[Thump!][Thump!][Thump!][Thump!][Door Open!}

"It's Yang Liwei!"

"We know! Sit down!"


Explain...?

...Jeez, did you live a sheltered life or what? Go watch "The Right
Stuff" and come back when you've gotten the joke.

[Shakes head in utter dismay]

"The spaceman?!"
"Ze spe-ci-meeen!"

(I got it the first time :-)

--
Steen Eiler Jørgensen
"No, I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande.
Those wounds run...pretty deep."

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:02:28 -0400, John Penta
wrote:

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:05:45 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_resear ch_facility.org
wrote:

...CNN now has more details, and a couple of ascent photos:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/1...nch/index.html

[Thump!][Thump!][Thump!][Thump!][Door Open!}

"It's Yang Liwei!"

"We know! Sit down!"


Explain...?

....Jeez, did you live a sheltered life or what? Go watch "The Right
Stuff" and come back when you've gotten the joke.

[Shakes head in utter dismay]


OM

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:49:41 +0200,
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Steen_Eiler_J=F8rgensen?=
wrote:

OM wrote:

[Thump!][Thump!][Thump!][Thump!][Door Open!}

"It's Yang Liwei!"

"We know! Sit down!"


Explain...?

...Jeez, did you live a sheltered life or what? Go watch "The Right
Stuff" and come back when you've gotten the joke.

[Shakes head in utter dismay]

"The spaceman?!"
"Ze spe-ci-meeen!"

Intergalactic crimmme...

(I got it the first time :-)

--
Steen Eiler Jørgensen
"No, I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande.
Those wounds run...pretty deep."


Christopher
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"Kites rise highest against
the wind - not with it."
Winston Churchill