Chinese on EVA Mission

Credit: AP/WIDE WORLD
Three Chinese astronauts were set to perform their nation’s first spacewalk after a safe launch from the Jiuquan Launch Center Sept. 25. Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng lifted off from the launch site in northwestern China in their Shenzhou 7 spacecraft atop a Long March 2F rocket at 9:10...

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