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 | 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  |  | 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: 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 |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei is greeted by military officials before boarding a Long March CZ-2F rocket which carried the craft 'Shenzhou V' into space from the Jiuquan launch center. Lieutenant Colonel Yang Liwei was onboard the spacecraft which is expected to orbit the Earth 14 times before landing. click to open |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: Chinese Astronaut Yang Liwei (R) waits before boarding a Long March CZ-2F rocket which carried the craft 'Shenzhou V' into space from the Jiuquan launch center. Lieutenant Colonel Yang Liwei was onboard the spacecraft which is expected to orbit the Earth 14 times before landing. click to open |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: First Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei waves before boarding China's first manned spacecraft Shenzhou 5 at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003. click to open |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: China's first astronaut Yang Liwei on board Shenzhou-5, China's first manned spacecraft, is seen on a giant screen in the Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003. Yang circled Earth on Wednesday, chatting with Chinese leaders by radio and saying hello to all the peoples of the world after blasting into orbit on a mission that made his nation only the third to achieve manned spaceflight. click to open |  | China's Shenzhou spacecraft V: Chinese President Hu Jintao waves to Yang Liwei(1st-L), the first Chinese astronaut who's setting out for the flight in the outer space, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003. Chinese President Hu Jintao, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), was present at the launch site for the first manned spacecraft of Shenzhou-5 on Wednesday. Also present were Party and state leaders Huang Ju and Wu Guanzheng along with Cao Gangchuan and Wang Gang. click to open |
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