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China continues its march on the space achievement

Beijing, China - It's the 27th successfull launch of the Chinese space agency

It has been carried out few hours ago the fourth launch of Shenzhou IV (the "sacred vessel"), the Chinese version of the shuttle, entirely constructed with Russian technology, but with important modifications brought by Chinese engineering. That one carried out yesterday has been an unmanned launch, but being the 27th in a row carried out successfully since 1996, the Beijing government is more and...

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Rome, Italy, 12/30/2002 10:04
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