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2008-09-27 16:47:59
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CONGRATULATIONS FROM PRESIDENT
After staying outside the capsule for about 20 minutes and traveling about 9,165 km along with the spacecraft in space, Zhai returned to the orbital module in a foot-in-first position, marking a complete success of China's first space walk.
President Hu talked with the trio taikonauts after Zhai and Liu changed back to working uniforms and joined Jing at the re-entry module.
Hu hailed the spacewalk as a breakthrough and thanked the taikonauts for their devotion and excellent performance.
"How did you feel like in space after exiting the module?" asked a smiling Hu, who was talking on phone with the taikonauts.
"I felt superb," answered Zhai. "The process of taking on the Feitian spacesuit went smooth," said Zhai, looking confident and radiant on the screen at the BACC. "In the vast space, I felt proud of our motherland," he said.
The Shenzhou-7 spacecraft took off from northwest China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 9:10 p.m. on Thursday, and is scheduled to land on the Inner Mongolia steppe at about 5:40 p.m. on Sunday.
Before its return, the Shenzhou-7 will carry out trials of satellite data relay, a task aimed to improve the coverage and efficiency of China's satellite observation network.
In 2003, China became the third country after the United States and Russia to send a human into orbit. It followed with a two-man mission in 2005. The successful spacewalk makes China the third to master the extravehicular activity (EVA) technology following the United States and Russia.
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