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Did CHINA really put the first man in space??

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posted on Sep, 30 2003 @ 11:03 AM
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OK, this is not what you thought, but still a good read...

Can you imagine being there on the day of the blast off???

His 1961 flight aboard a Soviet Vostok space capsule, catapulted the former air force pilot into the history books and set alarm bells ringing in the Western world that the final frontier was about to turn a very communist shade of red.

But was he really the first?

Several centuries earlier -- legend says about 1500 AD, sometime around the middle of the Ming Dynasty -- a Chinese stargazer named Wan Hu dreamed of going where no man had gone before and set out to turn that dream into space age reality.

According to the legend, Wan, a local government official, was obsessed by the stars and planned a rather harebrained scheme to get himself closer to them.

Wan's pioneering spacecraft was built around a sturdy chair, two kites and 47 of the largest gunpowder-filled rockets he could lay his hands on.

www.cnn.com...





posted on Sep, 30 2003 @ 11:16 AM
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That dude must have just blasted off!!!
Reminds me of the guy who was refused entry into the airforce so he decided to tie a load of big balloons to his deck chair to float himself so he could see the nearby airforce base. He slightly miscalculated the ballons...he ended up at around 6,000ft or something sitting in a chair with a back of beers !!!!



posted on Sep, 30 2003 @ 11:22 AM
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Sounds like the world's first honorary Darwin Award Winner....



posted on Sep, 30 2003 @ 11:25 AM
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It is likely that man has been on the moon before because we had more advanced past societies on the earth than we have today.

But like that? I would be surprised if this guy lived through this.



posted on Sep, 30 2003 @ 11:25 AM
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KInd of makes you wish Banned from Television was around in China in the 1500's.



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