3) Astronauts on Shenzhou-9 spaceship confirmed => http://newscontent.cctv.com/news.jsp?fileId=144773
Quote from: TALsite on 06/15/2012 02:26 pmI think China bought an old Soyuz spacecraft to the Russians but I don't remember which model.It was a Soyuz TM.
I think China bought an old Soyuz spacecraft to the Russians but I don't remember which model.
Quote from: Satori on 06/15/2012 05:39 pmQuote from: TALsite on 06/15/2012 02:26 pmI think China bought an old Soyuz spacecraft to the Russians but I don't remember which model.It was a Soyuz TM.I have no information to confirm that the Chinese bought a Soyuz.There is a long standing story that a Zond landed off course in China
Quote from: Danderman on 06/15/2012 11:49 pmQuote from: Satori on 06/15/2012 05:39 pmQuote from: TALsite on 06/15/2012 02:26 pmI think China bought an old Soyuz spacecraft to the Russians but I don't remember which model.It was a Soyuz TM.I have no information to confirm that the Chinese bought a Soyuz.There is a long standing story that a Zond landed off course in ChinaThe first Soyuz test flight, Cosmos 133, was of course and would have landed in China, so was commanded to self destruct. The Chinese may have recovred some bits but it would not have been very useful and of course was over 40 years ago.
I should elaborate; in the case of the Zond, the destruct command was sent when the descent module was below the horizon, and supposedly the capsule landed intact in China, where it was put on exhibit at the PLA museum for many years.On a related note, I was told by a "highly placed source" in Russia that the Chinese did not pay for an APAS.
CCTV is on dish network.
Looks like the ignition time is set at 10:37:29 UTC, with liftoff 3 seconds later. (source)
Jing Haipeng 景海鹏 Rank: Brigadier (daxiao, 大校)Liu Wang 刘旺Rank: Brigadier
Does anyone have the positions of Liu Wang and Liu Yang? by which I mean, the equivalent of 神舟七号 fanhuicang zhishou hangtianyuan (descent module monitor astronaut) like Jing was on his last flight (what we might translate as Command Module Pilot :-))
There is a long standing story that a Zond landed off course in China