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Landed the Chinese unmanned spacecraft

Beijing, China - Back on the Earth without any problems, it is the prelude for other launches with human beings boarded

The unmanned Chinese spacecraft "Shenzhou IV", the last unmanned spacecraft sent in the space by China, has landed without any problems in Mongolia. The present mission, the fourth of this kind since 1992, has lasted 6 days and 18 hours and the shuttle orbited round Earth for 108 times. Official sources of the Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center that has controlled by the ground say the...

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Rome, Italy, 01/08/2003 17:11
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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