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| China became only the third country in history to put a man into space when it launched its first manned spacecraft on October 15, 2003 from the remote Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert. The Shenzhou V spacecraft, carrying just one astronaut, was blasted into space atop a Long March 2-F rocket. [China.org.cn] |
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