World News 06-10-2003 who: Deputy science commissioner Wang Shuquan what: Announces first manned space flight where: China when: Yesterday snippet: The deputy secretary of the commission for science, technology and industry for national defence, to give him his full title, says his country will be the third to put an astronaut in space within a few days and will put a man on the moon by 2010. The Guardian`s Jonathan Watts dismisses the scheme as "something no country has managed, or bothered, to do for more than 30 years". [... more]

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