Chinese manned space launch

Yes, because everywhere I look when I drive to work, I see chinese cars!

Are you mad?
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No i'm not, try looking beyond your nosetip (outside USA) or for that matter, try looking under the bonnet in your cars.;)
 
The story at Foxx

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100082,00.html
Xinhua quoted space officials Tuesday assuring the public that the astronauts' space suits were safe and the Long March CZ-2 F booster was China's "best rocket."
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Ahh, yes.. They went through their rocket inventory, and picked out the ' best ' one for this endeavor..

Something else their astronaut can feel good about..
 
Ooh, here's an article with more food detail: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...&e=2&u=/nm/20031015/od_nm/space_china_food_dc

Yang was to dine on specially designed packets of more than 20 kinds of family-style Chinese fare, including shredded pork with garlic sauce, spicy "kung pao" chicken and "eight treasures" rice, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Yang's meals were to be washed down with Chinese herbal tea and health boosting tonics, it said.
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"health boosting tonics".
 
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/15/china.launch/index.html

China's State television said Shenzhou 5 landed at 6:28 a.m. Thursday (2228 GMT Wednesday). It said rescue helicopters had found the capsule.

"The landing is successful," a CCTV correspondent said. The station released an image of the capsule.

China's official Xinhua news agency said the capsule re-entered Earth's atmosphere at 6.04 a.m. on Thursday (2204 GMT on Wednesday), and the astronaut said he was feeling fine.
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arcticpenguin said:
"health boosting tonics".
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There's no reason to let a perfectly good technological endevour get in the way of ancient superstitions.

I'm willing to be the capsule was Feng Shui'd before liftoff.
 
I heard he slipped a menu under the door of the International Space Station while he was in orbit. ;)
 
More on the food: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/16/space.takeout.ap/index.html

Lt. Col. Yang Liwei, China's first human being in space, spent some of his time miles above the Earth eating from his choice of 20 Chinese dishes -- including one-bite nuggets of spicy shredded pork, diced chicken and fried rice cooked "with nuts, dates and other delicacies."
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The agency's rather emphatic headline: "Chinese food for Chinese astronauts."
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"We planned the recipes in a scientific way, in such a way as to ensure that the food will be nutritious enough for space missions while tasting good," Su Shuangning, head of China's astronaut program, was quoted as saying.
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Yang, who was launched in Shenzhou 5 on Wednesday morning, also could drink medicinal herbs and tonics after his meal to assist digestion.
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The Web site China.com was more competitive earlier this week. "It will be more tasty than Western food," it said. ( I don't doubt it!)

The one-bite nuggets of Chinese food, consisting of meat, fish or dessert, are coated with what Xinhua called "an edible protective covering" (like sweet & sour chicken?) to keep things from getting messy in zero gravity.

That, it said, is "for the convenience of the astronaut who can eat one piece at each bite in order not to produce residue that may keep sputtering in the capsule."
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The government did have this to say, however: After finishing the lunch, Yang took a three-hour nap. (yes, but was he hungry again in an hour?)
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I bolded a few lines for emphasis, parenthetical remarks are mine.

Maybe we could convince Thailand to start a space program...
 
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/16/china.space/index.html

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China is celebrating the successful completion of its first manned space flight, looking forward to future launches and revealing plans to put a space station in orbit.
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His comments came as Xinhua released an interview with Zhang Qingwei, second in command of China's space program, revealing plans to put a space lab and then a space station into orbit.
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Sounds rather ambitious.
 
The station will go up as soon as the track is laid. Recalling how fast Chinese labour built American railroads, that will be next year sometime.

Hey. 1960s tech or not, they got him up and they got him back. If it takes the entry of China to reinvigorate space travel, that's fine with me. Congratulations to all concerned.
 
arcticpenguin: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=/nm/20031017/od_uk_nm/oukoe_space_china_wall

Popular myth has it that the serpentine Great Wall of China, begun more than 2,000 years ago to keep out marauding nomads, is the only man-made object visible from space.

"I did not see the Great Wall from space," Yang told state television late on Thursday.
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Cute sound bite.

Just in case someone on the planet doesn't already know about that myth, here are some links:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/visible_from_space_031006.html
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa090100a.htm
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_092
 
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