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 | A Chinese official (with loudspeaker) gestures to the the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou-V spaceship on display in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province September 17, 2005. China might launch its second manned space mission next month,the Shanghai Morning Post reported early this month citing a space official. click to open  |  | United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, left, is introduced to the first Chinese Astronaut Col. Yang Liwei, right, by Ambassador Wang Guangya, the U.N. ambassador for China at U.N. headquarters in New York, Wednesday, May 19, 2004. click to open |  | Wen Jiabao: Chinese premier Wen Jiabao spoke with astronaunt Yang Liwei after his successful space trip on Oct 16th 2003 click to open |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: A local newspaper with a picture of Shenzhou 5 with title in Chinese ' Shenzhou 5 will be launched to show the prosperity of the Acient Dragon Nation' is sold at a street news stand Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003 in Beijing, China. Keeping his identity secret, China prepared its first astronaut for space travel and loaded his rocket with fuel _ but said the public and the world would have to wait to learn whether the flight succeeds. State television scrapped plans for a live broadcast of the launch, which the Web site of the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily said would 'most probably' happen Wednesday morning. A Hong Kong newspaper said the cancellation was prompted by fears of the 'political risks' of something going wrong. click to open |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: First Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei, center, walks toward China's first manned spacecraft Shenzhou 5 before its blasting off at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003. China launched its first manned space mission on Wednesday, sending an astronaut hurtling toward orbit and becoming the third country in Earth's history to do so, four decades after the Soviet Union and the United Sates. The Chinese banner read as 'Salute China's First Astronaut Yang Liwei. click to open |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: China's first astronaut Yang Liwei, 38, a lieutenant colonel of the People's Liberation Army, is seen in a recent file photo. Yang piloted the Shenzhou V spacecraft, which was blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center October 15, 2003, making China only the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to put a man into orbit. click to open |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: A trail of smoke shows the path of the Long March rocket taking off over the Gobi desert, with the Shenzhou V spacecraft carrying China's first man into space 15 October 2003. Amid snowcapped mountains and vast desert, hundreds of tourists will from Wednesday brave the icy cold of China's autumn mornings to scan the skies for a glimpse of the Shenzhou V spacecraft. click to open |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: Engineers at the control center monitor the launch of China's Long March CZ-2 F rocket, carrying manned spacecraft 'Shenzhou V', from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern province of Gansu October 15, 2003. China became only the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to put a man into orbit on Wednesday. Yang Liwei, 38, a lieutenant colonel of the People's Liberation Army, piloted the spacecraft. click to open |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: China's first astronaut Yang Liwei, 38, a lieutenant colonel of the People's Liberation Army, is seen in a recent file photo. Yang piloted the Shenzhou V spacecraft, which was blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center October 15, 2003, making China only the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to put a man into orbit. click to open |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: Chinese astronauts (L-R), Nie Haisheng, Yang Liwei and Zhai Zhigang, wave during a news conference at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern province of Gansu October 14, 2003. Yang Liwei, 38, a Lieutenant colonel of the People's Liberation Army, was chosen to pilot spacecraft 'Shenzhou V' which was launched in the morning of October 15 making China only the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to put a man into orbit. click to open |
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