A farewell ceremony for the father of space technology in China, Qian Xuesen, was held in Beijing today. The 98 year old Qian passed away on October 31st. Chinese President Hu Jintao, former President Jiang Zemin, NPC Standing Committee Chairman Wu Bangguo, Premier Wen Jiabao and other senio...
At the age of 18, he enrolled in the Harbin Institute of Technology to start preparatory courses in Russian, and later transferred to the automotive department. As the newly-established China began to set up an air force, Sun Jiadong, who was both of good character and strong academic ...
He is an investor and board member of Space Adventures Ltd., a U.S.-based company that has organized trips aboard Russian craft to the space station for five other millionaires since 2001. Garriott is to return to Earth in a Soyuz capsule on Oct. 24 with cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Ser...
Russian and American scientists have worked together for the international Space Station (ISS) for a long time. They hope the ISS will provide a long-lasting lab. Such a lab will bring humans limitless (无限的) advantages. It’s even hoped that one day spare technology will take humans to ...
Space Adventures worked with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia to offer flights for the world's first private space explorers. Each person paid over $20 million for their 10-day trip to the International Space Station. Following several suc...
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For centuries people dreamed of going into space. This dream began to seem possible when high-flying rockets were built in the early 1900s. In 1903 a Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figured out how to use rockets for space travel. His plan was the first one in rocket science to...
Team games at the end of sports day produced some close races,wild enthusiasm,lots of shouting-and were fun to watch.More importantly,the children who were not so fast or quick at passing the ball were hidden a little from everyone's eyes.Some of them also had the thrill of being on ...