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Special plane with taikonauts takes off for Beijing
2005-10-16 18:26:29 Xinhua English

SIZIWANG BANNER, Inner Mongolia, Oct. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- The special plane with the two taikonauts (Chinese term for astronauts) aboard took off for Beijing at around 8:40 Monday morning at the primary landing site of Shenzhou-6 spacecraft in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The taikonauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng boarded a special plane for Beijing some three hours after they landed safely in the northern China grasslands Monday morning.

Shortly after their landing, the two taikonauts went through a medical checkup and had a light meal with chocolate and Chinese herbal tea served in a first-aid helicopter.

Both said they are satisfied with the working conditions duringthe 115.32-hour space voyage which covered 3.25 million kilograms.

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