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China's Shenzhou-7 Space Crafts lands safely
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by jessica.lam | September 28, 2008 at 10:11 am
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China's space craft has safely landed after its 68-hour journey into space and completing the first 20 minute space walk.
China's Shenzhou-7 space module carrying three taikonauts landed by parachute Sunday afternoon in China's northern grassland, the mission ground control center announced.
Astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming, and Jing Haipeng came back from a 68-hour flight, which included a monumental 20-minute spacewalk on Saturday.
The cylindrical module parachuted softly onto a landing site in central Inner Mongolia, where about 300 search and rescue staff waited.
Check out Sanjay's pre-flight story.
Check this video out from the BBC.
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at 10:27 on September 28th, 2008
jessica.lam, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I just Like it! Now China is in the space race with Japan, Europe and the US. Who is the next runner up? I think S. Korea may be ready soon followed by the UAE maybe.
at 14:36 on September 28th, 2008
jessica.lam, I like this story. It's good stuff.
This is great news - the more countries committed to going into space, the sooner we can get off this rock,