Astronaut Yang Liwei (middle) and chief designer of China's manned spaceship Wang Yongzhi (left) are welcomed by Shanghai Deputy Party Secretary Yin Yicui (right) after they landed in Shanghai yesterday morning for a three-day visit of the city.
China's first astronaut Yang Liwei greets a Fudan University student after receiving a collection of press clippings from him at Jiaotong University.
Thousands line up outside the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum last night to catch a glimpse of Shenzhou V's return module and astronaut Yang Liwei's spacesuit at the space exhibition.
The re-entry capsule of Shenzhou-5 landed safely here in north China's Inner Mongolia, at 6:23 a.m. Thursday and Lt. Col. Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut in space, stepped out of the re-entry capsule in good situation. -Xinhua
China's first manned spacecraft, the Shenzhou-5, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern province of Gansu at 9 a.m. Wednesday. -Xinhua
