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Shenzhou VI to return early Monday morning
By Zhao Huanxin (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-10-16 21:08
Two astronauts piloting the Shenzhou VI spacecraft are expected to return to
the Earth early Monday morning after a five-day space voyage, the China Manned
Space Programme headquarters announced 9pm Sunday.
Medical workers
take part in a touchdown drill in the main landing field in central Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region Thursday October 13, 2005. China's second
manned spacecraft is scheduled to return to the Earth Monday morning.
[Xinhua] | If all goes according
to plans, astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng will "return triumphantly" on
Monday -- as wished for by Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday in a special
phone talk -- to the primary landing site in Siziwang Banner (county) in central
Inner Mongolia, according to the headquarters.
Members for spacecraft recovery work on
a helicopter at the landing area for China's orbiting
manned spacecraft Shenzhou VI to return in Siziwang Banner, North
China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Sundday, Oct. 16,
2005.[Xinhua] |
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