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Chinese Taikonaut Returns from Orbit after Successful Spaceflight.

By Tim Johnson, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 16--BEIJING--The re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou V spacecraft returned to Earth in Inner Mongolia early Thursday, and rescuers thronged around taikonaut Yang Liwei as he emerged from the module into a brilliant desert sunrise, ending China's first manned space flight.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao hailed the 21-hour space flight as "a complete success" and said it would be "written into the history of China's space program development," the official Xinhua news agenc

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