China counts down to Thursday space launch


  • World
  • Wednesday, 24 Sep 2008

JIUQUAN, China (Reuters) - China will send its third manned mission into space on Thursday evening on a mission which will include its first space walk, the government said on Wednesday.

The Shenzhou VII will lift off from the Jiuquan space centre in a remote desert area of the northwestern province of Gansu between 9:07 p.m. (1307 GMT) and 10:27 p.m (1427 GMT), mission spokesman Wang Zhaoyao told a news conference.

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