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China Poised To Launch Manned Spaceship, With Liftoff Set For Window Of Sept. 25-30

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Chinese Taikonaut To Perform Spacewalk; This Will Be Third Chinese Manned Mission China will launch a manned Shenzhou-7 spaceship in a window of Sept. 25 - 30 on a mission in which one of three taikonauts aboard will perform a spacewalk that may be televised live, the official Xinhua news agency reported. That means the Chinese manned mission will occur just before the U.S. mission of Space Shuttle Atlantis to repair and refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope. (Please see separate…

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