A new liquid fuel engine for the latest generation

China said it has developed a new liquid fuel engine for the latest generation of its line of rockets, hence becoming the second world power to apply that technology. The engine cycle high force burning step, uses 120 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene to run, is not toxic or polluting, and ensures high performance and reliability ideal for space expeditions in the country, said the State Science Administration Technological  Industry for National Defense.

The first chinese women in space

China launched a rocket into space with his first wife astronauta.Este Saturday has taken off from the Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan in the Gobi desert, the spacecraft 'Shenzhou 9', which take three astronauts, including the first woman China in space, Yang Liu, to the first Chinese space laboratory, the Tiangong-1.

49 years ago in this day launch of the first woman in first woman program

Today marks 49 years of launch of the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova, by her then-Soviet Union that marked another first in space exploration program progressed much faster than the U.S. space program. Terheskova, engineer and practitioner of skydiving was one of five women selected in 1962 for the group of Soviet cosmonauts and the only one who managed to fly a year later in the Vostok 6.

With 26 years of age, was in the space of three days and orbited the Earth on 48 occasions. Tereshkova retired astronaut and then a doctorate was removed and only where the invited lectures. It would take 19 years for the Soviet Union sent another woman into space.