China's satellite clicks the moon
CHINA'S LEADERS celebrated the first images sent from the country's first lunar satellite on Monday, saying they showed their nation had thrust itself into the front ranks of global technological powers. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, visiting the scientists who have guided the lunar probe Chang'e 1 into space and around the moon, proclaimed the mission a success after it began to send back images, according to the Chinese state news agency Xinhua news. "The full success of our country's first lunar exploration mission is helping to turn the Chinese nation's 1,000year old dream of reaching the moon a reality," Premier Wen reportedly said. The picture on the Xinhua website showed a patch of grey moon surface splotched with craters.
Even as hundreds of millions of Chinese struggle in rural hardship, the ruling Communist Party is committed to clambering into the select ranks of global space powers, and Chang'e 1's journey has been accompanied by a stream of patriotic propaganda. In 2003, China became only the third country in the world to put a man into space using its own rocket after the former Soviet Union and the United States. It then sent two astronauts on a five-day flight on its Shenzhou VI rocket in October 2005.
China plans to launch its third manned rocket, Shenzhou VII, into space in October 2008 and may send an astronaut on a space walk, a Shanghai paper said. The probe's success showed the world that "the Chinese people have the will, confidence and ability to constantly compose fine new chapters as we scale the peaks of modern science and technology", Wen said of the mission.
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article taken from the issue:27th November, 2007
Labels: china, lunar satellite, satellite, Shenzhou VI, Shenzhou VII, space research, xinhua news
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