With a column of beautiful smoke, the Shenzhou 5 (Divine Vessel

With a column of beautiful smoke, the Shenzhou 5 (Divine Vessel

(Please credit to Photographer not to Kyodo News) LANZHOU, CHINA----With a column of beautiful smoke, the Shenzhou 5 (Divine Vessel V) craft cut across a bright northwest China sky at exactly 9 am Wednesday (9 pm Tuesday EDT) and went into orbit 10 minutes later. China launched its first manned spaceship Shenzhou V (Divine Vessel V) at 9:00 am Wednesday, Oct.15th,2003, becoming the 3rd country in the world to send a person into orbit after the former Soviet Union and the United States. Astronaut Yang Liwei became China's first space man. Photographer: Wang Jie.

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