Yuhangyuan have arrived!
Oct. 15th, 2003 02:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusFirst, there were cosmonauts, followed shortly thereafter by the astronauts, and now China has added a new term to our vocabulary, "yuhangyuan" (meaning travellers in space.)
China today launched their first human into space, Yang Liwei, aboard a Shenzhou 5 ("divine vessel") spacecraft, similar to the Soyuz but much more advanced. He is still up there as I write this, expected to return to Earth tomorrow.
Despite the predictable paranoid ramblings from the Pentagon, this is another milestone of human history. Some (like the Times of India) may feel bitter, pointing out that Russia and the United States were there before them, but I say the more the merrier.
I wish Liwei the best of success for the rest of his flight.
Story can be found, among other places, here
China today launched their first human into space, Yang Liwei, aboard a Shenzhou 5 ("divine vessel") spacecraft, similar to the Soyuz but much more advanced. He is still up there as I write this, expected to return to Earth tomorrow.
Despite the predictable paranoid ramblings from the Pentagon, this is another milestone of human history. Some (like the Times of India) may feel bitter, pointing out that Russia and the United States were there before them, but I say the more the merrier.
I wish Liwei the best of success for the rest of his flight.
Story can be found, among other places, here
