China launches Shenzhou X manned spacecraft with three astronauts.
Commemorative stamps with the portraits of Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping are issued at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Northwest China's Gansu province, June 10, 2013.
Zhang Xiaoguang's aspirations to travel in space would never have been able to be fulfilled had a classmate failed to give him a hand 28 years ago.
The three astronauts of the Shenzhou X manned spacecraft mission, Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and the female Wang Yaping, on Monday met the media ahead of the launch time on Tuesday.
The spacecraft will send three astronauts to the Tiangong-1 space module, which has been orbiting Earth since 2011, and for the first time astronauts will give a science lecture from space to adolescents.
The return capsule of Shenzhou IX spacecraft touched down after China fulfilled its first manned space docking, June 29, 2012.
Flocks of sheep are seen in this picture taken on June 27, 2012 in the grassland Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
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