China's completed space mission "will help to mobilize its people to rally around the Communist Party and work harder for the future of the country."
Man, who talks like that anymore? Well, I guess I have my answer. The next question is, "How many people believe it?"
The Shenzhou 6 capsule with astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng aboard landed by parachute at 4:32 a.m. local time in China's northern grasslands, a flight meant to boost Beijing's global stature and domestic support for its rulers.
Crews rushed to the site in helicopters and off-road vehicles. State television showed the astronauts climbing out of their kettle-shaped capsule with the help of two technicians and clambering down a ladder in the pre-dawn darkness.
They smiled, waved to the cheering ground crew, accepted bouquets of flowers and sat in metal chairs beside the capsule.
"I want to thank the people for their love and care. Thank you very much," Fei said.
Tang Xiangming, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office, told a news conference that the next step for China's space program was to develop the ability for astronauts to work outside their capsule and to dock with other craft.
"Our estimate is that around 2007 we will be able to achieve extravehicular activity by our astronauts and they will walk in space," Tang said. He said the program also might recruit women in its next group of astronaut candidates.
Fei and Nie blasted off Wednesday from a base in China's desert northwest, almost exactly two years after the first Chinese manned space flight made this only the third country to send a human into orbit on its own, after Russia and the United States.
The Shenzhou 6 capsule with astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng aboard landed by parachute at 4:32 a.m. local time in China's northern grasslands, a flight meant to boost Beijing's global stature and domestic support for its rulers.
Crews rushed to the site in helicopters and off-road vehicles. State television showed the astronauts climbing out of their kettle-shaped capsule with the help of two technicians and clambering down a ladder in the pre-dawn darkness.
They smiled, waved to the cheering ground crew, accepted bouquets of flowers and sat in metal chairs beside the capsule.
"I want to thank the people for their love and care. Thank you very much," Fei said.
Tang Xiangming, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office, told a news conference that the next step for China's space program was to develop the ability for astronauts to work outside their capsule and to dock with other craft.
"Our estimate is that around 2007 we will be able to achieve extravehicular activity by our astronauts and they will walk in space," Tang said. He said the program also might recruit women in its next group of astronaut candidates.
Fei and Nie blasted off Wednesday from a base in China's desert northwest, almost exactly two years after the first Chinese manned space flight made this only the third country to send a human into orbit on its own, after Russia and the United States.
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