GREAT HERO YANG

摘要

As soon as the divine vessel reached orbit over the Pacific Ocean, the Chinese people knew they had accomplished something remarkable. Inside the eight-ton Shenzhou V spacecraft, their 38-year-old countryman Yang Liwei, a lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army, had entered the history books, joining the elite company of the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin and America's Alan Shepard as "first men" in space.