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BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhuanet, by Tian Sulei) -- Chinese taikonauts Fei Junlong and Nie
Haisheng, having got accustomed to conditions in space, began to enjoy their
life aboard the Shenzhou-6 spacecraft.
At 9:35 a.m. Wednesday, Fei toying with his floating
pen and looking out of the window occasionally at the earth below was seen on
the big screen in the Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center.
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| Chinese taikonauts Fei Junlong and Nie
Haisheng, having got accustomed to conditions in space, began to enjoy
their life aboard the Shenzhou-6 spacecraft. |
The screen also displayed Fei opening a bag to show people the contents
inside.
At 2:36 p.m., the taikonauts took out a video camera to shoot the earth
beneath them.
The screen later show both men in good condition, with Fei Junlong shaving.
At 4:30 p.m., Fei did something that captured people in the command and
control center. He turned a forward somersault.
He did three more afterwards as Nie Haisheng took pictures of him, each one
more skillful than the previous one. The four somersaults took him about three
minutes.
As the spacecraft was traveling at an speed of 7.8 kilometers per second,
he covered around 351 kilometers in each of the somersault. Enditem
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