The setup will enable
taikonauts to be stationed in orbit for missions that last more than one year.
Science: By Launching a "
Taikonaut", China Enters the.
(43) The first phase, which the Chinese have completed, was the launching of
taikonauts into space.
Although he had been scheduled to speak to the
taikonaut during the launch and offer congratulations afterward, he was conspicuously missing from the launch site and media events.
The four launches since 1999 of the Shenzhou (Divine or Sacred Vessel) spacecraft intended to launch the
taikonauts into orbit evidence substantial Chinese technical achievement and the seriousness of the program.
Liwei was his country's first
taikonaut when he piloted China's first manned rocket into space, but why isn't he as well known as the first Russian and American in space?
The "Chinese '
taikonaut' returned safely to Earth ...
The government said the mission was going smoothly and its '
taikonaut' radioed back: 'I feel good.'
Taikonaut: An astronaut in the Chinese space programme
Sending up a '
taikonaut', after the word for space, is a matter of patriotic prestige.
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