China's
first astronaut Yang Liwei flashes a victory sign, after the door of
capsule to spacecraft Shenzhou V was opened upon landing, on the Inner
Mongolian grasslands of northern China, October 16, 2003.
Reuters/Xinhua
China's first
taikonaut Yang Liwei, 38, a Lieutenant colonel of the People's Liberation
Army, boards the spacecraft 'Shenzhou V' at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch
Center in the northwestern province of Gansu, October 15, 2003. China's Long
March CZ-2 F rocket, carrying the manned spacecraft, blasted off
successfully into orbit.
Reuters/Xinhua
Lieutenant colonel Yang Liwei, is seen inside the Shenzhou V spacecraft orbiting the earth
Reuters/Xinhua
China's Shenzhou V
to beshipped to Beijing by a special train, Oct. 17, 2003.
(Photo/Xinhua)
China's Shenzhou III April 1, 2002. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Gang)
The first man in space Yury Gagarin, completed
a 108-minute orbit.
A Chinese TV broadcast showed the
Shenzhou VII spaceship landing in the steppe of
China's northern Inner Mongolia at 09:37 GMT on September 28 2008.
Peter Illig. Star City, Russia October 2000
Soyuz Descent Module
Another View
courtesy astronautix.com, friends-partners.org
Anousheh Ansari,
before
Launch to the International Space Station, at Baikonur Cosmodrome, abord the
Soyuz spacecraft: First female tourist, first female
Muslim,
and first Iranian in orbit.
Sep. 2006.
(Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters)
Anousheh Ansari
Her family sponsored the $10 million
Ansari X-Prize, awarded in 2004, to encourage private companies to develop
manned spacecraft.
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