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Shenzhou VI Taikonauts Enjoy Life in Space

Chinese taikonauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, having got accustomed to conditions in space, began to enjoy their life aboard the Shenzhou VI spacecraft.

 

At 9:35 AM Wednesday, Fei toying with his floating pen and looking out of the window occasionally at the earth below was seen on the big screen in the Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center.

 

The screen also displayed Fei opening a bag to show people the contents inside.

 

At 2:36 PM, the taikonauts took out a video camera to shoot the earth beneath them.

 

The screen later show both men in good condition, with Fei Junlong shaving.

 

At 4:30 PM, Fei did something that captured people in the command and control center. He turned a forward somersault.

 

He did three more afterwards as Nie Haisheng took pictures of him, each one more skillful than the previous one. The four somersaults took him about three minutes.

 

As the spacecraft was traveling at an speed of 7.8 kilometers per second, he covered around 351 kilometers in each of the somersault.

 

(Xinhua News Agency October 15, 2005)

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