China's Third Manned mission successful

Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts, successfully landed in Mongolia today, concluding a historic 5-day mission in space to complete the countries first space walk. China is the third country, behind the US and Russia, to have launch a spacecraft by their self. The launch of China's spacecraft, Shenzhou 7, on the Sep 25 was broadcasted live in the country, which reinforced the national pride they've had since 2003, when they first launched into space.

The 20 min long space walk was completed by lead taikonaut, Zhai Zhigang. In that time, he gathered solid samples outside of the spacecraft placed there before it launched. Zhai was very excited about it too, as he said "To all the people in my country and the wold, my greetings." and proudly waved the flag of the republic of China.

Although China officially said that their goal is to build a space station, many people believe that they have started space race with the United States to the moon. I think this is great and will lead to more developments in space.