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China’s First Spacewalk
September 28, 2008 | International Hearld Tribune

Zhai Zhigang made China’s first spacewalk on Saturday. It was a thirteen minute venture in space, broadcast live on Chinese television. The spacecraft and crew of three landed in Inner Mongolia later that day.


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