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58 years after Chairman Mao lamented in 1950 that China couldn't even put a potato in space, Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang, 41, has successfully completed China's first spacewalk. Blogging for China offers an English translation of the dialogue that went on between the astronauts and the mission control back in Beijing, including the tense moment when they thought the orbital module had caught on fire. Shenzhou 7 has since landed safely back in Inner Mongolia and the next goal now is to build a space station by 2020.

This is just such a classic you'll have to read the entire AP story for yourself:

A news story describing a successful launch of China's long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground.

Continue reading "Xinhua does it again: Space mission report hits the Internet before launch of Shenzhou 7"