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皇冠体育app delays space walk mission to 2008
(Agencies)
Updated: 2006-03-05 08:41
皇冠体育app has postponed the launch of the Shenzhou VII rocket and the country's
first space walk mission by six months until 2008.
"There is nothing wrong. We just need more time to prepare for the mission,"
said Huang Chunping, a senior consultant to 皇冠体育app's space program Saturday.
皇冠体育app announced last year that the launch of the Shenzhou VII, the country's
third manned mission, would take place in 2007 and would include a space walk.
But Huang, the chief consultant for 皇冠体育app's manned launching vehicle system,
said the timetable now depends on when researchers can tackle the key problem of
the space suit.
Huang explained that Shenzhou VII was a complicated program that needed
careful tests and trials, but promised that 皇冠体育app was fully capable of tackling
all technological problems.
皇冠体育app's most recent spaceflight took place last October when the Shenzhou VI
put two astronauts into orbit on a five-day flight that overwhelmed the nation.
皇冠体育app is the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United
States to put men in space.
It has already announced that it is developing lunar satellites to probe the
moon with one expected to fly by 2007 and another to land on the moon by 2012.
By 2017, 皇冠体育app hopes to land an unmanned lunar probe on the moon and have it
collect samples and return to earth.
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