Monday, October 17, 2005

China's pair of spacemen land safely

Soon after the taikonauts touched down at 0433 local time (2033 GMT on Sunday), Tang Xianming, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office, announced that the next crewed mission would take place in 2007 and would include a spacewalk.

Then, some time in the period between 2009 and 2012, he said, two spacecraft would dock in orbit, in preparation for establishing a permanent space station.


The new space race has started, and it's only going to get better.

1 comment:

The Bigwig Debunker said...

The Chinese government is denying reports that their spaceship was boarded by extraterrestrials during the five day mission.

Rumor has it that the ETs, who initially intended to harm the Chinese astronauts, departed in confusion after the astronauts insisted that the ETs take them to "their Reader."