From http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-01zza.html: China's Third Unmanned Space Flight Expected Next Month The launch center for Shenzhou missions Beijing (AFP) Nov 23, 2001 China's fledgling space program will launch an unmanned test flight next month, the third in a series expected to herald a manned trip by as early as 2003, industry sources said Friday. "Shenzhou III (Divine Vessel III) is likely to be launched next month from the Jiuquan Space Center" in northwest China's Gansu province, said Chen Lan, an independent Chinese space analyst who runs the "Go Taikonauts" website. ------------------ China said a couple of months ago that it plans to acheive manned space flight capability by 2005, and launch a space station, and Chinese to the Moon by 2016. Looks like Space Race, Round II, is just around the corner. Interesting! ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion 5 hours behind UT (-5) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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