On Oct. 12, People were very exciting at everywhere of China because that China's piloted spacecraft, the Shenzhou VI, blasted off at 9 a.m. from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, beginning a 5-day mission orbiting the earth.
Today moring, Oct. 17, it returned safely. The flight in Oct. 2003 made China the 3rd country to put an astronaut into space, after the former Soviet Union and the United States.