Second Successful Chinese Manned Space Shot

ON October 12, 2005, almost exactly two years after Shenzhou V launched China's first man into space, Shenzhou VI blasted off with two more.since the Mao Zedong era. After China's first successful satellite, Dongfanghong I, was launched in 1970, a detailed model aircraft kit - Shuguang I, similar to the American GeminiMacs II series - came on the market. Thirty years later Tang Lanxiang, former member of the Shuguang I design team, recalls that it resembled an hourglass. In 1972, Chi…

Second Successful Chinese Manned Space Shot