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To: maceng2 who wrote (261562)	9/25/2003 10:15:40 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 436258

China plans to join space country club 'next month' ananova.com China's first manned spacecraft could be launched "as early as next month" from a pad in the country's remote north-west. It will probably contain one human crew member, the official Communist Party newspaper reports. People's Daily has given no further concrete details about a timetable for the Shenzhou V, which the government has said will hurtle into space with a Chinese crew aboard by 2004. The flight will probably last 24 hours, the newspaper said. The mention of the schedule was the most specific signal yet by the Chinese government that such a launch is imminent. "China's first piloted space journey could occur as early as next month," the article said. "The Shenzhou V is set to soar." China's leaders have invested significant energy and resources in their secretive military-affiliated space program and have tried to stir nationalist sentiment about the project, much as the United States did in the space race of the 1960s against the Soviet Union. Any launch in coming weeks could take advantage of China's National Day on October 1, the anniversary of the founding of the Communist government. © Associated Press