Start Shenzhou X most ambitious manned Space Mission in Chinese History 12 june 2013

China launched Shenzhou X spacecraft, which has a crew of three astronauts, including one woman, in the most ambitious space missions in history, according to images broadcast by television CCTV.

Long March rocket carrying the Shenzhou capsule X took off at 17.38 local time (12.38 GMT, nr) from a base in the Gobi Desert, in the eyes of the President Xi Jinping, who came to attend this crucial stage of the ambitious Chinese space program .

A few hours before the launch, Chinese state television broadcast a special live event dedicated impregnated nationalist accents. This mission "embodies the dream space of the Chinese nation," said the president. Space launch is a great opportunity for the Chinese regime to highlight people from defending state apparatus to the small screen on Tuesday declared a public holiday in China.

Shenzhou capsule left the atmosphere aboard Long March rocket launchers and connect with space module Tiangong 1 ("heavenly palace") in orbit around the Earth. The crew of three astronauts will stay for 15 days in space. Wang Yaping part of the crew, the second woman in Chinese history to reach space.

Wang Yaping, Zhang Xiaoguang and Nie Haisheng

   

"This will be the most complex mission that China has done it before," said Morris Jones, an Australian expert in space. The mission takes place exactly 50 years after the Russian Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman cosmonaut in history, made ​​a space flight, from 16 to 19 June 1963, following which the former workers in the textile industry has been declared "heroine Soviet Union. "