China's Shenzhou spaceship: A proud family

Updated: 2016-10-17 08:53

(chinadaily.com.cn)

China's Shenzhou spaceship: A proud family

The Shenzhou V spaceship is China’s first manned spaceship developed on the basis of unmanned spaceship, and has the ability to carry out automatic return under emergency, the manually-controlled return, the return on the second or third day. Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei became an instant star on Oct. 15, 2003, when he began his 21-hour space mission to go where no Chinese man had gone before. [Photo/81.cn]

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