Leroy Chiao - Astronaut

Leroy Chiao - Astronaut
Dec 15, 2005 01:46
PHOENIX Points: Join Date: Dec 6, 2005 Status: offline	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4459311.stm Great Wall visible in space photo By Francis Markus BBC News, Shanghai The Great Wall of China is not the only edifice visible from space A photograph taken from space appears to confirm that China's Great Wall can be seen with the naked eye after all. China's schoolchildren have long been taught that the ancient fortification is one of the few man-made structures that can be picked out from orbit. However, last year, China's first man in space disappointed the nation when he said he had failed to spot it. Now, an official newspaper has run a picture taken by a Chinese-American astronaut showing the wall. Leroy Chiao took what the state-run China Daily newspaper says is the first photographic evidence using commercially available equipment. It will allow education officials to breathe more easily, after fretting over whether to change the school textbooks.

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Great Wall visible in space photo
By Francis Markus
BBC News, Shanghai

The Great Wall of China is not the only edifice visible from space
A photograph taken from space appears to confirm that China's Great Wall can be seen with the naked eye after all.

China's schoolchildren have long been taught that the ancient fortification is one of the few man-made structures that can be picked out from orbit.

However, last year, China's first man in space disappointed the nation when he said he had failed to spot it.

Now, an official newspaper has run a picture taken by a Chinese-American astronaut showing the wall.

Leroy Chiao took what the state-run China Daily newspaper says is the first photographic evidence using commercially available equipment.

It will allow education officials to breathe more easily, after fretting over whether to change the school textbooks.

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