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South China Morning Post on 2023-10-15 06:00

China sends its first astronaut, Yang Liwei, into space on board Shenzhou 5 — from the SCMP archive

20 years after China launched its first crewed space flight on October 15, 2003, we revisit our coverage of the historic event.

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