 | The 'Long March' rocket carrying the Shenzhou VI blasts off from the Jiuquan launch center in China's northwestern province of Gansu Oct 12 2005. China's second manned space flight has deviated 'slightly' from its preset orbit, but was otherwise operating normally on the second day of the mission. click to open  |
 | The 'Long March' rocket carrying the Shenzhou VI blasts off from the Jiuquan launch center in China's northwestern province of Gansu Oct 12 2005. China's second manned space flight has deviated 'slightly' from its preset orbit, but was otherwise operating normally on the second day of the mission. click to open |
 | The rocket launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi desert in Jiuquan Sep 28th 2005. China's state-run press named the likely astronauts to pilot the nation's second manned space flight tenatively scheduled to be launched during the first 20-days of October. click to open |
 | China Jiuquan Satellite Launch center click to open |
 | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: China's first astronaut Yang Liwei, 38, a lieutenant colonel of the People's Liberation Army, waves as he boards spacecraft 'Shenzhou V' at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern province of Gansu October 15, 2003. click to open |
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