Complete video of the first space stroll of China
Today we bring the complete video to them of the spaceship Shenzhou VII with its three crew on board giving a stroll by the space. Taikonautas Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng returned to the Earth after a trip of 68 hours in the space, where they successfully carried out a long walk of 20 minutes of duration, the past Saturday.
The capsule lowered helped of a parachute of 1,000 meters square and touched the Earth in the Flag (district) of Siziwang, in center of the independent region of Inner Mongolia (North of China), where they were waiting for his arrival a group of 300 person who renders first aids. Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao, that arrived at the Space Control center from Peking to observe the return of the astronauts, applauded and the ship was to contentment when seeing to touch earth. The astronauts received a medical examination in situ and they adapted to the Earth gravity before leaving the module, said to Xinhua sources of the mentioned center.
Taikonautas will be transferred to a hospital in the city of Hohhot, capital of Inner Mongolia, and has predicted to tomorrow travel of return to Peking Monday. Zhai Zhigang, first the Chinese in realising a space long walk, said to feel proud of its mother country, after completing an historical mission of three days and afternoon landing without today disadvantages Sunday.
“It was a glorious, full mission of challenges and with a perfect result. I feel proud of my mother country”, honored the astronaut with a smile. The three cosmonauts appeared relaxed and in good physical state after leaving the return module of the ship Shenzhou VII, that landed in the prairie of the independent region of Inner Mongolia, in the north of China. “Before taking off, I said that the Chinese astronauts are the best ones. Thanks to the mother country and to the town”, taikonauta Liu Boming declared the other. On the other hand, Jing Haipeng affirmed: “We could feel in the space the attention of the country and the town. Now we have returned without misfortunes”.
Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, declared in Sunday, the 28 of September, that to develop the technology of the space flight manned and to use the space with pacific aims is the objective of the Chinese town. The declarations of Wen in center took place of Guidance in outer space of Peking, after the ship Shenzhou VII settled in earth in the independent region of Inner Mongolia, in the north of the country. Wen forwards affirmed that the success of the mission just finalized mark “an historical landmark and a great jump in the development of the space technology”, when turning to China into the third country of the world able to carry out a space long walk.
Also premier expressed its congratulations to the astronauts and the scientists in charge of the mission, and assured that “it has been transcendental a new success in the scope of the development of the space technology of the country”. According to Wen, the success of the space mission is going to play a definitive role in the development of the economy, the technology and the national defense of China, as well as in the promotion of the national unit around the process of modernization of the country.
China has the objective to establish a space station in 2020 and before that it will send “simple” a space laboratory in 2011, tonight said a spokesman of the manned space program of the country. The station will be taken care of by human beings, said Wang Zhaoyao in a press conference after the successful landing of the third manned mission of the country, Shenzhou VII. The technology of connection of the space probe will be proven after the mission Shenzhou VII, said.
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