BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- As China made
another giant leap into space with the Shenzhou-7 craft launch on Thursday
carrying a crew that is scheduled to make the nation's first space walk, the
word "taikonaut" cropped up in media reports around the world.
It's appearing in dictionaries, too. Full story
BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese
astronauts on board the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft will face immense challenges in
their mission, scheduled to kick off between 9:07 p.m. to 10:27 p.m. local time
on Thursday.
Space motion sickness, which occurs to most
spacecraft passengers, can cause dizziness, vomiting and nausea, while
depression, another type of ailment that accompanies the space flight, could
incur joint pain, breath difficulties or even a loss of consciousness. Full story
BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The launch of China's
third manned spacecraft Shenzhou-7 was an important part of China's effort to
"explore and make peaceful use of outer space," Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesman Liu Jianchao said here Thursday.
The ultimate purpose of China's manned space mission
is to explore and make peaceful use of outer space, in a bid to boost the
national economy and benefit the people, Liu told a routine press conference. Full story
JIUQUAN, Gansu, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Jiuquan
Satellite Launch Center will hold a ceremony for the three taikonauts due to
board the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft before the start of the mission.
The ceremony will commence at 5:30 p.m. in the
taikonauts' apartment compound, called Wentiange, or "Ask-the-Sky Pavillion," at
the launch center. Full story
BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- China counted down
Thursday to its third manned space mission Shenzhou-7 which will include the
country's first ever space walk.
The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre started an eight-hour countdown at 1:10
p.m. Thursday (Beijing Time). Full story
BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's Shenzhou-7
astronauts will take traditional Chinese medicine in their spaceflight to treat
space motion sickness, a doctor with the astronauts training center said on
Thursday.
The medicine, prepared in capsule forms, is called
"Taikong Yangxin (space heart-nourishing) Capsule". It can be diluted with water
and taken to treat motion sickness in the space flight, saidLi Yongzhi, director
of medical department of the China Astronaut Research and Training Center.
Full story
BEIJING, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- All the systems of the
Shenzhou-7manned space program are going well as the mission, including China's
first space walk, has begun to count down for Thursday's blastoff, officials
said Wednesday night.
Engineers started Wednesday afternoon to load fuel into
the Long-March II-F carrier rocket which will lift the spaceship into orbit late
on Thursday. Full story
