China's first spacewalk team feted with parade

By GILLIAN WONG , Associated Press Writer, Space & Earth science / Space Exploration

Chinese astronauts from left Jing Haipeng, Zhai Zhigang and Liu Boming wave after they landed at the plains of China\'s northwestern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Sunday, Sept 28, 2008. The three astronauts completed China's latest space mission which includes a space walk. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)

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(AP) -- Three Chinese astronauts arrived Monday in Beijing to a homecoming parade after completing China's first spacewalk and putting the country closer to building a space station and landing a man on the moon.

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Posted by Modernmystic 09/29/08 06:36

Rank: 1/5 after 2 votes

Please oh please can we STOP with the PRC propaganda machine on this web site? So they did something that was done fourty years ago. This is NOT NEW SCIENCE it's really really old and boring science.

The more stories you do on this the less you look like a cutting edge science site and the more you look like cheerleaders for a country that puts people in jail for practicing free speech over the internet and puts bullets in people for even less....