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China will remember
the great moment. At 9: 00 a.m. on October 15th, 2003, the country sent up its
first manned spacecraft, ShenzhouⅤ, into
space at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province.
Now China has become
the third country in the world to send a person into orbit(运行轨道) after the former Soviet Union(前苏联) and the
United States. Yang Liwei, 38, is China's first spaceman.
Yang sent a message
back to the earth," I'm feeling very good in space, and it looks wonderful
here." Yang then told his wife and son," I have looked at our
beautiful earth and recorded all that I have seen here."
It was planned that ShenzhouⅤwould circle the earth 14 times in about 20 hours.
What did the spaceship
take with? Flags and seeds(种子): a
national flag, a United Nations flag, the Olympic flag and one kilogram of
seeds for experiments.
Yang, who comes from
Liaoning Province, has been an air force pilot since 1987. He was chosen from
14 pilots after many difficult tests.
