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Forum:	ESA - JAXA - China - International
Topic:	China's Shenzhou VII mission

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]And now back to the mission, already in progress... Xinhua: [URL=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/26/content_10115972.htm]China's maiden spacewalk to be broadcast live[/URL] <center><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/shenzhouVII_orbit01.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="332"></center> The video grab taken on Sept. 26, 2008 at the Beijing Space Command and Control Center in Beijing, China, shows Chinese astronaut Liu Boming unpacking and assembling the indigenous Feitian extra-vehicular activity (EVA) suit in Shenzhou-7. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]China will broadcast live the nation's maiden spacewalk slated for 04:30 p.m. Saturday, according to Wang Zhaoyao, spokesperson with the manned space program. The spacewalk, or extra-vehicular activity (EVA), will last about 30 minutes, he said at a press conference here Friday. Excluding the opening and the closing of the module gate, the real spacewalk may take about 20 minutes, he said. According to the schedule, the taikonauts would finish testing the space suits at 1:00 a.m. Saturday when the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft has made 19 orbits around the earth, he said. Then they would begin a 100-minute training in the orbital module before the EVA, he said.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> If the EVA starts at 4:30 p.m. Beijing time on Saturday, it will be at 0830 GMT or 4:30 a.m. EDT.[/B][/QUOTE]
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