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Agencies: China spacecraft blasts off
www.chinanews.cn 2005-10-12 09:51:48
Oct. 12 - According to AP, two years after China became only the third
nation to launch a human into orbit, a pair of astronauts blasted off
Wednesday on a longer, riskier mission after receiving a farewell visit
from Premier Wen Jiabao.
It will be more complicated than the first flight in 2003, which carried
one astronaut and lasted just 21 1/2 hours.
Minutes after liftoff, mission control announced that the first stage
booster had successfully separated from the rocket and that the flight
was proceeding as planned.
Images of Fei and Nie in their cockpit as the craft roared toward orbit
were broadcast live to hundreds of millions of Chinese television viewers.
Reuters also reported China's second manned spacecraft blasted off from a
remote northwestern launch site on Wednesday, just two years after the
country joined an elite club of space powers.
Astronauts Fei Junlong, 40, and Nie Haisheng, 41, were handpicked from 14
fighter pilots and had been in the running for China's first manned space
launch in 2003.
"I feel good," Fei said minutes after blast-off.
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