China both first and third in manned space travel?

Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003 @ 11:34am

China's due to launch their first person into space before the end of the year, the third country to do so (after the US and Russia).

But are they really third? Or did a 16th century astronomer beat everyone else to the punch?

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