First Chinese Taikonaut Talks About Eight Years In Training
First Chinese Taikonaut Talks About Eight Years In Training
Beijing, China (XNA) Jul 24, 2006
China's first spaceman Yang Liwei has recounted many new stories about his eight years of astronaut training. "Each astronaut training facility is equipped with an alarm," Yang told a group of youth assembled at the ongoing 36th Committee on Space Research Scientific Assembly. "If the trainee feels uncomfortable, he can just press the stop button. However, since our Chinese astronaut brigade was established in 1998, no one has ever used the function."
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