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On June 11, 2013, the Shenzhou X spacecraft, launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province, sent two men and a woman into space.
The report in China Daily featured a photo showing astronauts Wang Yaping, Nie Haisheng and Zhang Xiaoguang (from left to right), meeting the press at the center the day before the launch. They spent 15 days in space.
It was the China’s fifth 19/32 16/26 23/27 24/28 17/24 22/32 25/31 23/28 18/24 27/35 21/33 14/25 21/33 15/30 28/31 22/36 15/22 16/32 14/26 14/20 26/31 23/27 21/34 25/34 16/23 27/30 C C C R S O C D R Sh C C C S R S R S D D Sh C S Sh S C Shanghai Shenyang Shenzhen Shijiazhuang Suzhou Taipei Taiyuan Tianjin Urumqi Wuhan Xi'an Xiamen Xining Yantai Yinchuan Zhengzhou Zhuhai Athens Berlin Brussels Geneva Istanbul London Madrid Moscow Paris Rome Vienna 21/31 16/24 26/33 18/30 17/26 25/28 11/32 17/30 22/33 19/32 18/36 24/30 6/24 16/21 16/32 18/36 27/33 23/32 19/22 16/23 17/21 21/29 14/17 12/19 7/20 18/22 19/24 18/23 manned space mission, and the astronauts performed one automatic and one manual docking test with the orbiting space lab module Tiangong 1.
China’s space lab was launched in September 2011.
Space rendezvous and docking are crucial skills for building a space station in the country’s manned space program, which was first approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1992.
On Oct 15, 2003, China carried out its first manned space mission, sending Yang Liwei on a 21-hour series of Earth orbits in Shenzhou V.
China thus became the third nation after Russia and the United States to achieve that feat. In the 14 years since Yang’s momentous C Sh C S S D C S S C C C C T C S C S D O D S S D O D S C 22/33 15/29 26/30 21/34 19/25 24/32 14/32 21/34 22/27 21/31 20/37 24/31 7/26 16/26 18/33 23/36 27/31 24/34 18/21 16/17 17/17 21/29 14/14 13/21 14/23 17/19 19/24 18/27 C C R S O C S S S O S C C C C S Sh S D D D S C D O D C S journey, China has evolved from a second-tier player in the global space race into a great power.
This year, in an ambitious schedule, China will conduct at least 40 unmanned space missions.
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