China Set to Launch Shenzhou-2 within Two Weeks | SpaceRef

China Set to Launch Shenzhou-2 within Two Weeks

Marc Boucher
Thursday, December 28, 2000

A report from Go Taikonauts, the unofficial China Space News site, states that China is preparing to launch their second manned rated spacecraft Shenzhou-2 within two weeks for a seven day mission.

Shenzhou-2 would once again be unmmaned as part of an ongoing test program. At the International Space Symposium held in Washington, DC in late October, Zhang Xinxia, president of the China Great Wall Industry Corporation, stated that China would launch two more unmanned experimental Shenzhou spacecraft before sending their first astronauts into space. If this is the case then we should expect at least one more unmanned test launch before the Chinese send a human crew into space. At their current rate of Shenzhou launches that would be sometime in 2002.

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