China sets second manned space launch
Posted on: Monday, 10 October 2005, 18:43 CDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has scheduled the launch of its second manned spacecraft this week, aiming to join the exclusive club of just three countries to put a man into space twice.
The official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday the Shenzhou VI would set off from a launch center in northwest China "at a proper time" between October 12 and 15, citing an official with China's manned space program.
The spacecraft, with two astronauts aboard, would blast off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern province of Gansu and touch down in the Inner Mongolia region after the mission, Xinhua said, quoting the official.
In October 2003, China became the third country to put a man into space, decades after the United States and the former Soviet Union, when Colonel Yang Liwei orbited Earth 14 times on the Shenzhou V.
Source: REUTERS
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