Date set for China space shot

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Last Updated: Friday, 15 July, 2005, 09:21 GMT 10:21 UK

Date set for China space shot

China's second manned space mission - called Shenzhou VI - will launch
in early October, a state newspaper has reported.

This time, authorities will send two astronauts into space and they
will orbit the Earth for five or six days.

"The manned spacecraft Shenzhou VI will ... preferably be launched in
early October," Sun Weigang, director of the Space Department of the
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, told the China Daily.

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China hopes to set up a space station within five years and wants
to land an unmanned probe on the moon by 2010.

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