China's Space Launch

On 15 October 2003 China launched from the Gobi Deser, China a manned rocket intended for earth orbit. The astronaut an Air Force Lt. Col. Yang Liwei shot across the Axure Nrothwest China sky in the spacecraft named the Shenzhou V translatin "divined vessel" at exactly 9 a.m. and reached the earth's orbit 10 minutes later, they began circling he planet every 90 minutes, and completed 14 orbits which toke approximately 21 hours before executing reentry according to the offical Zinhua Ne...