China is aiming (1) launch its second manned space capsule in October with two astronauts on a five- to six-day mission, (2) China Daily newspaper reported on Friday. Astronaut training has been stepped up in preparation (3) the flight, which will come two years after China first launched a man into space on (4) craft called Shenzhou V.
"The manned spacecraft (Shenzhou VI) will... preferably (5) launched in early October," the paper (6) Sun Weigang, director of the Space Department of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., (7) saying. China (8) the third nation to send a man into space in October 2003 (9) astronaut Yang Liwei orbited the earth 14 (10) . Six candidates (11) the Shenzhou VI mission were chosen from a pool of 14 in December.
China's space (12) are ambitious. It hopes to be ready to set (13) its own orbiting space station (14) five years. The country also aims to have an astronaut perform a spacewalk (15) a planned Shenzhou VII mission, and eventually put men on the moon.
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