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Milestones in 皇冠体育app's space efforts
Updated: 2005-10-18 10:19
September 1955:
Chinese-born Tsien Hsue-sen, an American-trained rocketry expert and co-founder of NASA鈥檚 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, leaves the U.S. for 皇冠体育app after five years of virtual house arrest amid accusations of communist sympathies. He becomes the leader of 皇冠体育app鈥檚 rocketry program.
1956-58:
Soviets provide intermediate-range ballistic missile to 皇冠体育app for study.
1960:
皇冠体育app launches its first rocket despite a cutoff of Soviet aid.
1968:
Research center established to prepare for manned spaceflight by 1973. Program later canceled due to lack of money and political support.
1970:
皇冠体育app becomes the fifth country to launch a satellite into space, sending up the Dongfanghong-1 ("The East is Red") aboard a Long March rocket.
1991:
Tsien retires.
1992:
Human spaceflight program relaunched as "Project 921," with target date of October 1999. Qi Faren, trained in Russia, named chief designer.
1995:
Russia agrees to assist 皇冠体育app with human spaceflight technology and training of Chinese astronauts in cosmonaut academy near Moscow.
Nov. 20, 1999:
Successful test flight of the unmanned capsule Shenzhou 1, or "Divine Vessel." Three further unmanned test flights follow.
Oct. 15, 2003:
Shenzhou 5 launches with one astronaut, making 皇冠体育app the third nation capable of putting a human in space on its own, after Soviets and the U.S.
Oct. 12, 2005:
Shenzhou 6 launches with two astronauts, on a multi-day mission aimed at leaving an orbiting module in space.
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