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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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1 posted on 06/29/2012 3:27:44 PM PDT by cruise_missile
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To: cruise_missile

She has a lot of dishes to wash.


2 posted on 06/29/2012 3:29:42 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: cruise_missile

Hope she enjoyed the pool.


3 posted on 06/29/2012 3:34:40 PM PDT by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: cruise_missile

What happens in space stays in space...


4 posted on 06/29/2012 3:35:32 PM PDT by Popman (When you elect a clown: expect a circus...)
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To: cruise_missile
what's the odds on nine months from now she has a space brat???
5 posted on 06/29/2012 3:37:10 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: cruise_missile

Confucius say woman who fly in cold space have hot re-entry on earth.


6 posted on 06/29/2012 3:42:27 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (what?? Who knew?)
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To: cruise_missile

In space...no one can hear you scream.


7 posted on 06/29/2012 3:42:53 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: cruise_missile
Mmmm.

Women in space.


8 posted on 06/29/2012 3:43:52 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Chode
what's the odds on nine months from now she has a space brat???

Only if

1)she doesn't have a child already

2)the fetus is male

9 posted on 06/29/2012 3:44:23 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: cruise_missile

make me eggroll bish


10 posted on 06/29/2012 3:52:41 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: nascarnation
i was thinking more of a Chinese government planned event... first kid conceived in space and all
11 posted on 06/29/2012 3:53:06 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

do you think she had outercourse
?


12 posted on 06/29/2012 3:53:36 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: cruise_missile

Bummer she only got paid 25 cents per hour for being an astronaut


13 posted on 06/29/2012 3:57:55 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (When I said "close the borders", I did not mean the bookstore chain)
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To: mass55th
No it's;

In space...no one can hear you nag.

I hear they did an experiment to blind her. They put a windshield in front of her.

14 posted on 06/29/2012 3:59:55 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: al baby
yeah... the 100mile high club
15 posted on 06/29/2012 4:06:32 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: nascarnation

Inb4 she has a Prometheus Squid Baby


16 posted on 06/29/2012 4:07:38 PM PDT by omega4179 ( el 0bama comio un perro)
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To: Chode

How many members are there of the “200 mile high club” ?


17 posted on 06/29/2012 4:19:04 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: cruise_missile
So what China has an advanced space program that can put people in space, build a space station and destroy enemy satellites. We have a space program that embraces diversity and Islam. S/
18 posted on 06/29/2012 4:34:03 PM PDT by pterional
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To: nascarnation
how many women have been on the ISS???
19 posted on 06/29/2012 4:35:03 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode
how many women have been on the ISS???

Sane women? Or counting the maniac stalkers too?


20 posted on 06/29/2012 4:40:49 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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