Saturday, June 16, 2012

China sending woman into space to test module

 

A Chinese soldier is silhouetted near the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan in western China's Gansu province, Saturday, June 16, 2012. China will send its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Three Chinese astronauts — including the first Chinese woman to be sent into space — have arrived at a spacecraft launch site for the country's latest and most ambitious space mission.

China sending woman into space to test module
Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:16:53 GMT

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