UNIT 4 SPACE EXPLORATIONYang Liwei was born in an ordinary family in Liaoning Province in 1965
He became a pilot in Chinese Air Force in 1987, spending 1,350 hours in the air
He has spent 5 years training to become a spaceman
Yang Liwei was sent into space at 9 am on October 15th, 2003 by China's Shenzhou V spacecraft, which orbited the earth 14 times
He landed safely at 6:23 am the next day, making China the third country successfully sending a person into space after the former Soviet Union and the USA
Yang Liwei came back to the earth after a 21hour trip to space
In space Yang recorded everything he saw and showed China's national flag and the United Nations' flag to the people watching TV at home
All of the Chinese are proud of our first spaceman—Yang Liwei
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