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onsdag, oktober 20, 2010

Chang'e-2 heads for moon after first trajectory correction



China's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e-2, was maneuvered to correct its trajectory on the earth-moon transfer orbit Saturday.

Some foreign leaders have recently extended their warm congratulation to China over the successful mission of the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft.
The leaders include Lesotho's King Letsie III, Nigerian President Mamadou Tandja, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, Cameroonian President Paul Biya, Senior-General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of Myanmar, Myanmar's Prime Minister General Thein Sein and its Foreign Minister U Nyan Win; Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem of Vietnam; and Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadera of the
Central African Republic. /People's Daily Online (China)

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