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Chairman Mao Zedong complained that China could not even shoot a potato into space.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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In the ’50s, Chairman Mao Zedong complained that China could not even shoot a potato into space. Hu Jintao’s China has come some distance since then: on September 27 a Chinese astronaut went outside his vessel to walk in space, China becoming in the process only the third country in the world to conduct a successful spacewalk.
China, naturally, has used this achievement with its customary ability
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