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Space.com reports that a collectible signed envelope appears to reveal the formerly hidden identities of seven pilots selected to join China’s space programme<\/strong><\/a> last year:<\/p>\n

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“The names of the military pilots selected in 2010 to form China’s second group of taikonauts \u2014 which have been a closely guarded secret for the last 18 months \u2014 appear to have been released [as the result of] a possible philatelic blunder,” said Tony Quine, an Isle of Man-based space memorabilia collector and contributing writer for the British Interplanetary Society’s “Spaceflight” magazine.<\/p>\n

Quine worked with Russian space industry expert Igor Lissov to confirm the envelope’s autographs since finding it listed for sale on a German space dealer’s website two days ago. The two elicited the assistance of Chinese space enthusiasts to help verify the translation of the seven signatures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See more on China’s space programme<\/a>, via CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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