Thursday, June 29, 2006
BEIJING - China opened up the control room at Aerospace City in the Beijing suburbs - the nerve centre since where it has run its two manned space launches -- to foreign observers yesterday as part of its labors to be built-in in joint space projects.
The rare visit by foreign reporters was allowable as China is keen to gain way in to the International Space Station and other joint projects and assuage fears that its space programmer is driven by military needs.
The country's primary astronaut, or taikonaut as they are known in China, Colonel Yang Liwei met Western reporters for the first time as he path the Earth in 2003 on China's maiden manned space flight, Shenzhou V.
"We hope to further our exchanges with our counterparts in foreign countries and learn from each other. Let's join hands and work together to create a bright future for the peaceful use of space," he said.
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