From China Daily via People’s Daily Online:
China will stage its first spacewalk in 2008, a top scientist said yesterday.
Qi Faren, chief designer of China’s first five Shenzhou spaceships said the spacecraft, Shenzhou VII, would carry three astronauts into space, where it will orbit the Earth for up to five days.
One of them will conduct “extra-vehicular activities”.
“I think we are fully prepared for the launch in 2008,” Qi, a chief consultant for Shenzhou VII, told China Daily on the sidelines of the opening of the annual NPC session.
Qi was invited as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a top political advisory body. [Full Text]
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