中国将在2005年内将宇航员送上太空（来自CNN消息）

China plans manned space mission in 2005
2005年中国的太空载人计划

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( CNN) -- 中国正推进它的宇航员培训计划并且将在3 年内把几人传送到空间，根据正式的国家媒体。

The flight will serve as a prelude to a space station assembly project and a manned mission to the moon, reported the People's Daily, citing space program documents. The newspaper offered rare details about the normally secretive space organization, many about its budding astronaut training program near the capital. "The aerospace city located in Beijing's suburban area is said to be the third large[st] city for spaceflight training [in] the world," read the daily's online English edition. Two Chinese space aspirants began training in Moscow in 1996. In the meantime, China constructed its own astronaut instruction center and recently began mustering more cadets, the paper said. The new recruits are air force pilots with more than 1,000 flying hours. They train for ten hours each day, doing everything from simulating space travel to studying medicine and rocket science. In May, China completed its third unmanned Shenzhou space mission. The Shenzhou 3 capsule, complete with a crew of mannequins, orbited Earth more than 100 times and landed in Mongolia, state media said. China, which launched its first satellite in 1970, hopes to become the third nation to send humans in space, following the United States and Russia, formerly part of the Soviet Union.

飞行将作为一项空间站装配工程的一场序幕，对月亮的载人的传教，报告人民日报，引用太空计划资料。 报纸提供稀有细节关于不坦率空间组织，关于它的初露头角的宇航员培训计划的很多通常接近首都。 "训练地点位于北京地区附近的航空航天城市据说是中国第三大城市，" 人民日报的在线英语版。 两个中国空间有抱负的人于1996 年在莫斯科开始训练。 同时，中国建造它自己的宇航员指示中心并且最近开始召集更多的军官学校学生，文章说。新兵是有超过1，000 个飞行小时的空军飞行员。 他们每天训练10 个小时，从模拟的太空做一切事情，从学习医学和火箭科学旅行。 在5月，中国完成它的第3 项无人操作的神舟空间任务。 神舟3 个太空舱，与一模特组成的全体人员完成，绕地球的轨道运行超过100 次并且在蒙古降落，相关部门向外公布说。中国在1970 年发射第一个卫星，希望继美国和俄罗斯之后（以前苏联的部分），
成为第3个把宇航员送上太空的国家。