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Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, prepares to board Shenzhou V, the rocket that carried him into space. The mission made the PRC the third country in the world to independently send people into space.
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Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, prepares to board Shenzhou V, the rocket that carried him into space. The mission made the PRC the third country in the world to independently send people into space.

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