From flying dreams to spacewalking - a review of China's space exploration journey
Xinhua News Agency, Jiuquan, September 26th, by reporters Zhuangzhi Xu and Xuanliang Li
Carrying the aspirations of an ancient nation towards space, Chinese astronauts embark on their third flight into space. During this mission, they will conduct extravehicular activities, leaving the first Chinese footprints in outer space.
On that autumn night in 1076 AD when the bright moon hung high, as the great Song Dynasty poet Su Shi raised his wine cup and questioned the heavens, could he have ever imagined that 932 years later, on this night, the Chinese nation would begin another dream-surpassing spaceflight?