{"id":1602,"date":"2013-09-25T05:44:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T09:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2013-09-25T05:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T09:44:02","slug":"the-long-march-to-shenzhou-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/the-long-march-to-shenzhou-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long March to Shenzhou 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago today — September 25, 2008 — China launched Shenzhou 7, their third manned mission,* from the Jiquan launch center on a Long March 2F rocket.<\/p>\n

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\n(The Shenzhou 7 capsule on display after its return to earth. Image from Wikimedia Commons.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Shenzhou 7<\/a> carried taikonauts Jing Haipen, Zhai Zhigang, and Liu Boming on a three-day mission that featured China’s first spacewalk to test their space suit design. Interestingly, the space suit itself was named Feitian, after a Chinese goddess who could fly.<\/p>\n

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\n*Sorry, PC police, but “human spaceflight mission” doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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