[FPSPACE] Did Shenzhou-2 Go Splat

[Phillip Clark]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, David Anderman wrote:
> *If* the module went splat, perhaps that would explain the lack of 
> information about possible animal passengers.

Yesterday (Thursday) the BBC's CEEFAX service ran a story on its page 154,
saying that a monkey, a dog and a rabbit, as well as a collection of
snails, had been flown aboard Shen Zhou 2, and these had been safely
recovered.

The BBC were said that they were repeating a REUTER's report, based upon
Chinese announcements.

Maybe the lack of landing pictures is simply because the Chinese
considered that the SZ 1 recovery was the big thing to publicise and they
do not feel the necessity to repeat the procedure.   Not every country is
media-led !


Phillip Clark

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