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China completes manned space mission

Beijing vows new mission within 2 years

AFP, Beijing
China completed its first manned space flight yesterday when the Shenzhou V capsule with astronaut Yang Liwei returned safely to Earth, sparking celebrations and a pledge of a new mission within two years.
The capsule landed at 6:23 a.m. (2223 GMT Wednesday) just 4.8 km off target in the vast grasslands of the Inner Mongolia region some 300 km northwest of Beijing.
Lieutenant Colonel Yang, 38, was in good health and the Beijing Space Command and Control Centre and Premier Wen Jiabao announced the mission a "complete success."
Yang exited the capsule on his own, looking dazed, and was seen on television waving following his 21-hour flight that covered 600,000 km.
Premier Wen congratulated him by telephone on behalf of government and military officials.
China's leaders had much riding on a successful mission, hoping it would promote patriotism, national cohesion and legitimacy for its rule and state-run television devoted extensive coverage to the "glorious" return.
Xie Mingbao, director of the China Manned Space Program's office told a news conference another Shenzhou mission would be launched "in one to two years time."
China's Aerospace Command and Control Centre gave the order at 5:35 a.m (2135 GMT) for Yang to begin his descent after he had orbited Earth 14 times.
The touchdown marked the end of a history-making flight, which blasted off from Jiuquan in northeast China at 9:00 a.m. (0100 GMT) Wednesday and made China alongside Russia and the United States the only nations to send a man into space.
President Hu Jintao, who leaves
for the APEC summit in Bangkok Friday, watched the blast-off at the Jiuquan Launch Center and hailed the culmination of the 11-year space program as a "historic step of the Chinese people".
NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe said the launch was "an important achievement in the history of human exploration".
The mission was tracked from 13 monitoring stations dotted across China, Namibia, Pakistan and Kenya and capped a highly secretive program codenamed Project 921 that has cost billions of dollars.
The Shenzhou, or "Divine Vessel," is based on the three-seat Russian Soyuz capsule, which the Soviets first launched some 36 years ago, but is better integrated with updated life-support and computer systems.
While prestige is a key component of China's desire to compete in space with other world powers,
Chinese officials have admitted there are military connotations, although Beijing has played this down in recent days.
Only hours after the return of Shenzhou V, foreign ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue reiterated that China was committed to the peaceful use of outer space.
"China is willing to closely cooperate with the United Nations and other countries on the peaceful use of outer space," Zhang said.
She said the unveiling of the Chinese and United Nations flags by Yang while in orbit was intended to highlight the pursuit of peaceful space exploration.
China will now turn its attention to setting up a space laboratory and then a space station, said Zhang Qingwei, second in command of China's space program.