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China will launch manned space flight on Oct. 15
China - BEIJING (AP) — China will launch its first human being into space on Oct. 15 in a 90-minute flight that will orbit the Earth once, a major Chinese Web site reported, quoting a top government rocketry official.
It implied that the flight, the Shenzhou 5, would carry only one human being.
The comments by Xie Guangxuan, director of the government's China Rocket Design Department, were reported by the Web site Sina.com, China's largest.