China's first spacewalk coming up

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China has revealed the identities of its first spacewalker and his two crewmates set to launch on the country's third manned spaceflight next week, according to state media reports.
Chinese Air Force fighter pilot Zhai Zhigang, 42, will be the first Chinese spacewalker during the upcoming Shenzhou 7 mission with crewmates Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng, The People Daily Online reported Tuesday. The mission is slated to launch Sept. 25 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's Gansu Province.
According to the wire service AFP, Zhai is married and has one son. He will don a $15 million (100 million yuan) spacesuit for a planned 40-minute spacewalk that is slated to include the deployment of small satellite capable of broadcasting images to Earth via a CCD camera.
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