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The simulation photo taken at 23:59:30
(Beijing Time) on Sept. 26, 2008 at the Beijing Space Command and Control
Center in Beijing, China, shows Shenzhou-7 travel in space. (Xinhua/Chen
Jianli)
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BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's third
manned space mission Shenzhou-7 on Friday entered a stable circular orbit where
the taikonauts assembled the 4.4-million-dollar space suit for extra-vehicular
activity (EVA) and trained themselves for the country's maiden spacewalk after
spending their first day in space.
The spacecraft is circling at 343 km above the earth,
orbiting every 90 minutes. It blasted off in northwest China at 9:10 p.m. on
Thursday. Full story
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The video grab taken on Sept. 26, 2008
at the Beijing Space Command and Control Center in Beijing, China, shows
Chinese astronaut Liu Boming unpacking and assembling the indigenous
Feitian extra-vehicular activity (EVA) suit in Shenzhou-7. Astronauts
aboard the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft, China's third manned spaceship, began to
assemble the suit and test its obturation and functions at 10:20 a.m.
Friday in preparation for the first spacewalk. (Xinhua/Zha
Chunming)
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BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Astronauts aboard
the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft, China's third manned spaceship, began to unpack and
assemble the indigenous Feitian extra-vehicular activity (EVA) suit at 10:20
a.m. Friday in preparation for the first spacewalk.
As of 11:51 a.m., the spaceship which blasted off at
9:10 p.m. Thursday at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gansu
Province, has made 11 orbits around the earth as scheduled. Full story
BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's third manned
spacecraft Shenzhou-7 completed orbit maneuver successfully at 4:04 a.m.(Beijing
Time) on Friday, entering into the round orbit 343 kilometers above the
earth. Full story
JIUQUAN, Gansu, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu
Jintao met with space scientists working for the country's Shenzhou-7 manned
space program here Friday morning. Full story
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Chinese President Hu Jintao applauses
after watching the launching of the Shenzhou-7 spaceship at the Jiuquan
Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gansu Province on Sept. 25,
2008. (Xinhua/Li Tao)
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JIUQUAN, Gansu, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese
president Hu Jintao congratulated the country's space scientists and taikonauts
on the successful launch of the manned spacecraft Shenzhou-7 at the Jiuquan
Satellite Launch Center on Thursday. Full story
China's Shenzhou-7 spaceship on the nation's
first spacewalk mission lifted off at 9:10 p.m. on Sept 25, 2008. It was China's
third manned space journey, also the seventh mission of the Shenzhou series.
After Yang Liwei piloted China's maiden flight in
space, and Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng carried out aerospace experiment in
2005, trio taikonauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng shoulder a
historic mission of conducting China's first spacewalk.
It is unprecedented for a Chinese to leave his
footprint in the outer space, an invisible print, which will be curved into the
Chinese history. Full story
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Students and teachers celebrate while
they watching the live broadcast of the launching of the Shenzhou-7
spaceship in the Alma Mater of the three taikonauts, the Chinese
Aeronautical university of the China People Liberation Airforce in
Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, Sept. 25, 2008.
China launched Shenzhou-7, its third manned spacecraft, with three
taikonauts on board Thursday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the
northwestern Gansu Province to attempt the country's first-ever space
walk. (Xinhua/Gao Fei)
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BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The launch of
China's third manned spacecraft Shenzhou-7 has further boosted Chinese people's
space fervor and national pride. Full story
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The Long-March II-F carrier rocket
carrying the Shenzhou-7 spaceship blasts off from the launch pad at the
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, on
21:10 p.m., Sept. 25, 2008. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
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JIUQUAN, Gansu, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's
third manned spacecraft Shenzhou-7 blasted off from the northwestern Jiuquan
Satellite Launch Center on Thursday, carrying three astronauts to attempt the
country's first-ever space walk. Full
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