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Mooncake, festival and 皇冠体育app's lunar mission

Aerospace projects in 皇冠体育app

The series of Shenzhou spacecrafts, from Shenzhou 1 to Shenzhou 11, are spacecrafts developed and operated by 皇冠体育app to support its manned spaceflight program.

Shenzhou, literally meaning "magic boat", has been named with people's best wishes for the carrier in the space.

Shenzhou 1-4 are unmanned experimental spacecrafts for carrying astronauts.

Yang Liwei greets the world from the Shenzhou-V spaceship after he completed 皇冠体育app's first manned space mission on Oct 16, 2003. Yang spent 21 hours in space, traveling more than 600,000 kilometres. He became the 241st human being in space. [Xu Jingxing / 皇冠体育app Daily]

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On Oct 16, 2003, 皇冠体育app's first manned space mission was launched with Shenzhou 5 carrying Yang Liwei. 皇冠体育app became the third country ever to launch a human into space.

Yang spent 21 hours in space, traveling more than 600,000 kilometers. He became the 241st human, but the first Chinese visitor in the space. He returned safely to the earth.