BEIJING (AP) -- Three Chinese astronauts arrived Monday in Beijing to a homecoming parade after completing China's first spacewalk and putting the country closer to building a space station and landing a man on the moon.... ...full story at AP
from AP on Mon, Sep 29 2008
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