CHINA'S FIRST SPACEWALK -- PART 1 OF 2

YESTERDAY, on September 28, 2008, the People's Republic of China performed their FIRST EVER SPACEWALK aboard the Shenzhou 7 mission.

China became the third country to spacewalk and perform EVAs.

The spacewalk was performed by Zhai Zhigang in his Chinese-designed Feitian spacesuit and also by Liu Boming in his Orlan-M spacesuit. The third crewmember, Jing Haipeng, stayed in the spacecraft. Zhai Zhigang spacewalked for 20 minutes and waved the Chinese flag in space while doing so.

A message to all the crewmembers, to all the Chinese, and to ALL of the astronauts around the world: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Shenzhou VII was China's third human spaceflight, and was China's first ever spacewalk. With the launch of the manned Shenzhou 7 mission, China became the third nation in the world to spacewalk.

At 21:10 CST, September 25, three Chinese astronauts (taikonauts) inside the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft blasted off on its CZ-2F "Long March 2" rocket boosters.
This will be China's first three-man mission. This mission will also be China's first launch of a mini-satellite, China's first water training pool, and China's first extraterrestial Communist Party branch.

During the mission, the crew will also launch China's first data-relay satelllite, named "Tianlian 1". Two Yuanwang-class space tracking ships (5 and 5) will also be used to track the mission.

China's space program is currently the world's third most advanced and largest space program. The Chinese space program is also the world's fastest-advancing and fastest-upgrading space program.

Shenzhou 7 will include SIX of China's first ever accomplishments!

China will launch a full-size space station in 2010, build a space shuttle, have a human landing on the moon by 2020, and a manned mission to Mars by 2040.

So, to our Chinese fellows and friends from all around the world, we don't just can do it, WE DID IT!

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[thingthingisalive]

Looks sooo fake

[SR71U2ube]

Im glad to see the enthusiasm in China's space program. I wish our country had the same but NOOOO everybody watches MTV and the Kardashian's....

[TheRyuseiou]

@oasisspirit read the decription

[SPADES6o6]

@userwl2850 ur stupid NASA stop? NASA never stop lol, you mean the space Shuttle stop cuz it was old and now we get to the next level while China films fakes lol, heard of Virgin Galactic, space x, and others, lol that video was filmed in the new WALMART underground pools made in CHINA lol we send the first ROBOT to kick the CHINITOS asses if they ever get to space with there FIRE CRACKERS as space ships lol

[oasisspirit]

wait this is clearly not their moon landing. this is from a film or somthing of the other. China and the world knows that china has not landed man on the moon yet.

[MTMind2]

@elzupelzu - Every spacewalk has people claiming particles of debris are bubbles. Exactly the same is said about ALL the USA spacewalks too, and the International Space Station, as you can see in the following;

/watch?v=38ynHKGzplQ

And look at the end of his video, it's CLEARLY a spinning piece of debris, since it's not round and it even reflects the sunlight before going off screen.

Many spacewalks have film where you can see such particles (not bubbles) moving, especially from open hatches.

[elzupelzu]

I like the part where, I can see the waterbubble floating up from the railing @1:18 :DD Seriously this was fake. Even the mission commander slipped "The astronauts has entered into water".

[rp1dmc]

FAKE

[jd5179]

Chinese astronaut: hq we reached hu jin tao's bottom pool - request to swim over.

HQ: copy that astrounaut, just dont touch hu's rubber duckies.

[nothingnessx2]

Very nice