Special Report: Third Manned Space Mission
Commentary: Taikonaut
Zhai's small step historical leap for China
China's first
spacewalker
Backgrounder: Chinese
footprints in outer space
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao applauds
after reading out the congratulation speech on China's first-ever
spacewalk mission at Beijing Space Command and Control Center in Beijing,
capital of China, on Sept. 28, 2008. Premier Wen Jiabao watched the return
of China's Shenzhou-7 spacecraft in a live transmission in the center.
(Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) shakes
hands with an engineer at Beijing Space Command and Control Center in
Beijing, capital of China, on Sept. 28, 2008. Premier Wen Jiabao watched
the return of China's Shenzhou-7 spacecraft in a live transmission in the
center. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)
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BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao celebrated the
successful return of Chinese taikonauts who had completed the country's third
manned space mission on Sunday.
Together with other senior officials and officers at the Beijing
Aerospace Control Center (BACC), Wen watched the re-entry of Shenzhou-7 space
module to Earth in a live transmission.
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China's Shenzhou-7 spacecraft's re-entry
module lands safely in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
(Xinhua/Wang Jianmin)
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After the module landed in China's northern grassland and the three
taikonauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming, and Jing Haipeng moved out of the spaceship
by themselves, Wen congratulated the victory with the technical staff members
and operators in the center.
Delivering a congratulatory note from the central authorities, Wen said
the mission was "a victory of the Chinese space and technological field and a
monumental achievement in the socialist causes".
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One of the three Chinese taikonauts (R)
is ready to get out of Shenzhou-7 re-entry module after their safe landing
in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Sept. 28, 2008.
(Xinhua/Li Gang)
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The taikonauts were lifted into space at 9:10 p.m. Thursday at the
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, where the country's first twomanned space
missions took off in 2003 and 2005.
The three taikonauts came back from a 68-hour flight, included a historic
20-minute spacewalk of Zhai Zhigang on Saturday.
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Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2008 at Beijing
Space Command and Control Center in Beijing, China, shows Shenzhou-7
re-entry module being parachuted to the ground. (Xinhua/Cheng
Jianli)
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Their spacecraft circled Earth 46 laps before descending at the Siziwang
Banner in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 5:37 p.m. Sunday.
The taikonauts were taken to a hospital in the Inner Mongolian capital
Hohhot for medical examination and would be flown to Beijing on Monday for a
two-week quarantine.
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China's Shenzhou-7 spacecraft's re-entry
module lands safely in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
(Xinhua/Wang Jianmin)
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BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Shenzhou-7 space
module carrying three taikonauts landed safely by parachute Sunday afternoon in
China's northern grassland, after a landmark spacewalk mission that leads the
country further in its space exploration.
Astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming, and Jing Haipeng
came back from a 68-hour flight, which included a 20-minute spacewalk on
Saturday. Full story
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Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2008, at the
Beijing Space Command and Control Center in Beijing, China, shows the
three Chinese taikonnauts reporting their body condition in the module of
the spacecraft Shenzhou-7 travelling in the last circle before returning
back to earth. Shenzhou-7 has closed the door of re-entry module and
entered its return phase. (Xinhua/Chen Jianli)
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BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Three Chinese astronauts
onboard the spacecraft Shenzhou-7 are heading back to the Earth after
accomplishing China's first spacewalk.
The three taikonauts switched to in-cabin space suits
at 11:10 a.m. on Sunday and control data for the return trip had be dictated to
the spacecraft. Full story
