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Saturday, June 16, 2012

China launches manned space flight with a woman on board


China launched Saturday a manned space flight Shenzhou IX, for his first space rendezvous with astronauts on board, and, another first, with one female astronauts. Liu Yang, a fighter pilot of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) 33 years, will become a hero to more than one billion Chinese people, while leaving the Earth with his two companions Jing Haipeng - which is already been twice in the space - Liu and Wang, aboard the ship to be launched by a Long March rocket. The fourth ship of the Chinese manned space flight to be launched at 6:37 p.m. (10:37 GMT) from the launch pad in Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert (northwest). This first "rendezvous", a delicate operation that requires high technology, is another crucial milestone in the Chinese conquest of space and a source of pride for Beijing which is doubling its space ambitions for reĆ©aliser. The critical moment of the ten-day mission will be a docking manually by the astronauts, contrary to what had happened to Shenzhou VIII, unmanned mission for which the whole operation was controlled from a ground station. Liu Yang, married and childless according to Chinese press, is an experienced pilot who was selected in May 2010 for astronaut training. The excellence of his performance allowed him to be hired in March as a candidate for the Shenzhou IX, told the New China News Agency. "From day one, I was told that I was not different from male astronauts," said Liu CCTV television just after the announcement Friday that it would be the first Chinese to go into space. China will be the third country after the U.S. and the USSR, to send a woman into space with its own technology. The first Chinese manned flight was in October 2003. September 29, 2011, a Long March 2F rocket launched Tiangong-1, the first Chinese space station module. The Shenzhou ("Divine Vessel") VIII in October 2011 had allowed the Chinese to realize for the first time an unmanned docking between two spacecraft orbiting the Earth. Tiangong-1 remained in space after the undocking of Shenzhou VIII and lowered its orbit to get into position to receive Shenzhou IX. For safety, one of the three astronauts remain onboard Shenzhou IX after docking while the other two will take place aboard Tiangong-1. Control of in-space is a crucial step in the conquest of space, crossed by the Russians and Americans in the 1960s. The current program aims to provide within a decade China a space station in which a crew can live independently for several months, as the old Russian space station Mir or the International Space Station (ISS).

Yemen army resumes to al-Qaeda a third city in the South


Al Qaeda is losing ground in Yemen The army has recaptured the town of Chuqra, in the south. The central government thus takes control of almost all the province of Abyan, fell to al-Qaeda for over a year. For the terrorist organization is a major setback but it should not mean it disappears completely. It was the outcome of more than a month of reconquest. Returning Chuqra, the Yemeni army terminates one of the most cloudy episodes in the history of Yemen. For nearly a year, the Partisans of Sharia, an organization close to al-Qaeda, have mocked the central government. The Islamists had taken control of three towns: Zinjibar, Jaar and therefore, Chuqra. After the departure of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the new military command was determined to put an end to this humiliating and dangerous. The Army has forged new alliances with the tribes of South and with the support of Americans including drones, so she dropped one by one the Islamist strongholds. Jaar and Zinjibar were resumed early in the week.

Killed the Canadian bisexual porn Luka Rocco Magnotta also killer Omar Laparra?


The dismembered body of Omar Laparra (21) was found in 2009 in several plastic bags. His remains excessive packaging in the water of Biscayne Bay in Miami. The murderer of Laparra had separated his arms and legs - just like Lin Jun (33), known to the victims of the killer as a bisexual porn Luka Rocco Magnotta (29). The murderer of Laparra was not found until today. Now, the Miami police, the old file out of the wardrobe and check a possible connection to Magnotta, as the Canadians could have lived at the time in Miami. Some of his entries on the Internet at least suggest it here. Investigators are still skeptical: Except for the fragmentation are similar to the cases. The victim was the lover of Lin Jun Magnotta, while Omar Laparra neither homosexual nor was seems to stand in some relationship to the killer. The murder was well-done "arbitrarily," speculates the police. Not yet completed the investigation of the Los Angeles Police Department, whether a connection to the murder of homosexual Hervey Medellin (66). He was beheaded in January in the hills of Hollywood has been found. Luka Magnotta is waiting even now in Berlin for his extradition.