[FPSPACE] China plans on manned spaceflight within five years

[Larry Klaes]

CHINESE ANNOUNCE MANNED SPACEFLIGHT PLANS
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Although China has been working on a manned spaceflight program for
several years, including the launch of an unmanned capsule last
year, there have been no specifics released about the future of the
program. Officials from the Chinese Space Agency finally announced
that they will send an astronaut into space within the next 5
years, as well as launch 30 commercial satellites.

Internet Coverage:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/china_space001213.html
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/12/13/space.china.reut/index.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/502780.asp 

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