国外媒体：中国发射神五成为第三宇航大国
美东时间10月14日晚9时20分,未在电视新闻播报中国发射神舟五号消息的美国有线新闻网,在其官方网站的头条紧急新闻中打出“中国发射载人飞船”的标题,并配有一张整装待发的神五图片。
CNN的导语说：据中国官方电视台报导,中国已于10月15日成为世界上第三个向太空发射载人飞船的国家。这是中国载人宇航计划的首次发射,把空军飞行员出身的中国首名宇航员杨利伟送上了太空,在其21小时的的太空旅程中,神五将围绕地球飞行14圈。
China's space mission lifts off
Tuesday, October 14, 2003 Posted: 10:17 PM EDT (0217 GMT)
(CNN) -- China has launched its first manned spacecraft becoming only the third country in history to put a man into space, state-run Xinhua news agency has reported.
The launch came at just after 9am local time (0100GMT) from the remote Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert, the agency said.
The Shenzhou V spacecraft carrying just one astronaut was blasted into space atop a Long March 2-F rocket.
The man chosen to pilot the flight is a 38-year-old former air force pilot named Yang Liwei, Xinhua said.
His picture was printed on the front of Hong Kong-based newspaper Wen Wei Po Tuesday as the man most likely to pilot the craft. (Image: Wen Wei Po front page)
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He is expected to make 14 orbits of the Earth during a flight lasting just short of 24 hours before coming back to land in Inner Mongolia.
If it is successful the flight will bring China membership of an elite space club, making it only the third country after Russia and the U.S. capable of putting humans into space and returning them safely to Earth.
Chinese President Hu Jintao was among a select group of top leaders and VIPs who witnessed the launch.
The Chinese government is banking on the launch giving a boost to national pride and demonstrating China's technological prowess.
连接：中国空间探索历程
Timeline: China's space quest
(CNN) The following is a rundown of key events in China's space program and the build up to its first manned space mission:
1955: Qian Xuesen, regarded as the father of both China's ballistic missile force and its space program, returns to China from the United States.
Trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in rocket research and a one-time colonel in the U.S. Air Force working on America's ballistic missile program, Qian returned to communist China amid charges he was a spy. He quickly becomes the leading scientist in China's own effort to develop ballistic missiles and other rockets.
1958: Qian presents plans for China's first satellite and the rocket to launch it to the communist party leadership.
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April 24, 1970: China launches its first satellite using a modified CSS-3 intercontinental ballistic missile, later renamed the Long March 1 rocket. The satellite remains in orbit for 26 days transmitting the revolutionary song \
1975: China successfully recovers a remote sensing satellite from orbit, a key step in developing a space vehicle capable of surviving re-entry and returning to Earth.
1979: Shanghai-based newspaper Wen Hui Bao publishes a photograph of a Chinese astronaut training in a space suit. These were soon followed by the release of more detailed photographs clearly showing Chinese astronauts undergoing training in a simulated space cabin.
Late 1980s: China announces ambitious space plans including the development of a small space shuttle system, a space station and a series of new launchers.
1986: China announces it is entering the commercial space launch market. The announcement is timely following the suspension of the U.S. shuttle program following the Challenger disaster and the failure of other American satellite luanch vehicles.
1989: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev visits Beijing, restoring links between China and the Soviet Union. Process leads to improved cooperation in a number of areas, including Chinese access to Soviet space expertise.
1990: China launches and successfully recovers a \and plants, including rats and guinea pigs.
1992: Project 921, the mission to put China's first man in space, gets the official go-ahead from the communist leadership.
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