China Cities' Great Progress' In Manned Space Program By Daniel Southerland
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(c) 1986, The Washington Post
PEKING - China has made "great progress" in developing a manned space
program and the day it launches a man in space for the first time is "not
far off," an official newspaper said Sunday.
The overseas edition of the People's Daily, the leading Communist Party
ne ....
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.... roaming through space is not far off," the
report said.
On June 5 of this year, Sun Jiadong, vice minister of astronautics,
told reporters that China would put a man into space but that such a
program "must be worked out gradually in keeping with our needs and
capabilities." A foreign observer who has followed the Chinese space
program said it could still be a few years before China puts a man into
orbit. The People's Daily report did not say how many astronauts are being
trained or exac ....
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