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China Launches Shenzhou V
"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in message ... ...Details are a bit sketch, but it appears that China launched Shenzhou V. The AP is reporting the launch, but as of 8:45CDT this was all that was available: -------------------- SPACE.COM web site has story .. as lead http://www.space.com GB ... now back to baseball history ! |
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FWD: China Launches Shenzhou V
....Details are a bit sketch, but it appears that China launched
Shenzhou V. The AP is reporting the launch, but as of 8:45CDT this was all that was available: -------------------- GOBI DESERT, China (AP) - China launched its first manned space mission on Wednesday, sending an astronaut hurtling toward orbit and becoming the third country in history to do so on its own - four decades after the Soviet Union and the United States. -------------------- AP Wire Feeder on Yang Liwei: ----------------------------------------- NAME: Yang Liwei. PROFESSION: Pilot. AGE: Born 1965, Youzhong County, Liaoning province, northeastern China. HEIGHT: 5 feet, 6 inches. SELECTED FOR MISSION: Tuesday. PERSONAL: Married, at least one child. PROFESSIONAL: Works for Aviation Military Unit of China's People's Liberation Army. Became astronaut 1983. QUOTE: "I will not disappoint the motherland. I will complete each movement with total concentration. And I will gain honor for the People's Liberation Army and for the Chinese nation." 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 |
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FWD: China Launches Shenzhou V
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, OM wrote:
...Details are a bit sketch, but it appears that China launched Shenzhou V. The AP is reporting the launch, but as of 8:45CDT this was all that was available: [...] AGE: Born 1965, Youzhong County, Liaoning province, northeastern China. HEIGHT: 5 feet, 6 inches. SELECTED FOR MISSION: Tuesday. Anybody why they waited till the last moment to select one of the trainees to be pilot? Seems odd. PERSONAL: Married, at least one child. PROFESSIONAL: Works for Aviation Military Unit of China's People's Liberation Army. Became astronaut 1983. Did he really become an astronaut (well, taikonaut, or yuhangyuan) at the age of eighteen? -- Bill Higgins | ASTRONOMY: Fermi National | The early science of the sky. Accelerator Laboratory | ASTROLOGY: Internet: | How it was paid for. | --Michael Rivero |
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FWD: China Launches Shenzhou V
Bill Higgins wrote: Did he really become an astronaut (well, taikonaut, or yuhangyuan) at the age of eighteen? This might be a good time to bring up the link from Encyclopedia Astronautica about the original group of Chinese spacemen from thirty years ago, and their somewhat confused and shoestring budgeted training program ("Great News! The Central Committee is giving us our very own telephone! And we may even get a jeep!!!")- hilarious reading, and just the thing as a tasty sidedish for boiled bread cooked over a backyard steel mill furnace: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/shuuang1.htm |
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