New Spacesuit Tested in China
AFPMarch 5, 2007 — China is on schedule to have a man walk in space for the first time next year after engineers finished the design of a home-grown suit for the mission, Chinese state press reported Monday.
The launch of Shenzhou VII, China's third manned space flight, will take place in 2008 with two of the three astronauts likely to take the nation's first-ever spacewalk, rocket engineer Huang Chunping was quoted as saying.
China had previously announced that the flight of Shenzhou VII had been pushed back from 2007 to 2008 so engineers could perfect a homemade space suit to be used in the walk.
(Discovery News)
New Spacesuit Tested in China
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