Correspondents Report - China looks to the sky again: "But that was before 38-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Yang Liwei went into space, as China 's first astronaut.
He's actually the 241st human being to break the bonds of Earth.
Yang's not even the first Chinese, says former NASA Mission Control Officer and now space analyst, James Oberg.
JAMES OBERG: That's always a good trick question and the first one in fact was Dr Shannon Lucid, the American astronaut, who was born in a POW camp in occupied China during World War II."
He's actually the 241st human being to break the bonds of Earth.
Yang's not even the first Chinese, says former NASA Mission Control Officer and now space analyst, James Oberg.
JAMES OBERG: That's always a good trick question and the first one in fact was Dr Shannon Lucid, the American astronaut, who was born in a POW camp in occupied China during World War II."
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