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China’s first woman in space arrives home
ft times ^ | June 29, 2012 | Leslie Hook

Posted on 06/29/2012 3:27:30 PM PDT by cruise_missile

China’s Shenzhou 9 spacecraft thudded to earth in Inner Mongolia on Friday, capping a two-week space mission that has transfixed the world’s most populous nation and put the first Chinese female astronaut into space.

Chinese leaders applauded the mission, which tested space docking procedures that are crucial steps toward China’s goal of creating a manned station by 2020.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: astronauts; chinese; nasa; space
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To: pterional

Maybe we can pay them to take us into space.
When these commercial companies discover the financial and legal risks are too high.


21 posted on 06/29/2012 4:59:48 PM PDT by cruise_missile
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To: pterional

Maybe we can pay them to take us into space.
When these commercial companies discover the financial and legal risks are too high.


22 posted on 06/29/2012 4:59:51 PM PDT by cruise_missile
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To: cruise_missile
OMFG WHUT Pictures, Images and Photos
23 posted on 06/29/2012 5:21:01 PM PDT by DFG ("Dumb, Dependent, and Democrat is no way to go through life" - Louie Gohmert (R-TX))
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To: cruise_missile

Grass, gas or a—, nobody rides for free.


24 posted on 06/29/2012 7:10:07 PM PDT by pterional
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To: cruise_missile

Anyone remember the first Russian woman in space?

According to the story I heard, she went into a panic screaming and crying and and failed to take command of her vehicle. Ground controllers had to land the vehicle and they never sent a woman alone into space again.


25 posted on 06/29/2012 7:23:28 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I LIKE ART! Click my name. See my web page.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

That there’s a bloody lie. They’ve sent other women into space.

Svetlana Savitskaya and Yelena Kondikova also went into space, one with the Soviet progamme in 1984 and one with the Shuttle.

It is known that she was nauseous and uncomfortable for much of the flight, but I’ve never heard of her panicking and freaking out.


26 posted on 06/29/2012 7:36:56 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: hoagy62

***That there’s a bloody lie. **

like I said, it is a story I heard back in the early 1970s.


27 posted on 06/29/2012 7:53:27 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I LIKE ART! Click my name. See my web page.)
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To: ElkGroveDan
ten bucks says she's a charter member...
28 posted on 06/29/2012 8:04:22 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

LOLOL


29 posted on 06/30/2012 6:00:29 AM PDT by nascarnation
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