 | 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. |
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