China readies more heros for manned spaceflight

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Less than four months after it first reached the stars, China said yesterday it would begin training astronauts in March for the nation's second manned spaceflight - a mission that will likely include a crew of two, according to official media.

The field of 14 astronauts will include Yang Liwei, who in October was catapulted into orbit as the lone astronaut aboard Shenzhou 5 for China's first manned space mission, the official Xinhua News Agency and the state-controlled Beijing Youth Daily newspaper reported.

Training for the Shenzhou 6 mission will be based primarily on what China learned from the October mission, the newspaper said, quoting Huang Weifen, who oversees the selection and training of Chinese astronauts. The names of the potential space travelers weren't released.

http://www.etaiwannews.com/China/2004/02/03/1075775338.htm

As Junior readies more of our children for slaughter in an unjust butchering in Iraq.

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1. Why?

I don't understand what does China hope to accomplish?
They allready put satelites up, what's the point of manned flight.

As the old Chineese parabel goes-
On a bare branch
A crow settles
Autumn dusk
- Basho

and
The beautiful girl
Munching
The rice dumpling
- Issa
Ah... Why do we care what the Chineese do, it's all propoganda anyways. We probably didn't get to the moon anyways. JK