Stellar pioneer
By Li Xiaokun and Peng Kuang | China Daily | Updated: 2009-09-30 07:41
In the autumn of 1969, Fang Guojun was a 33-year-old air force officer training pilots in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province.
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 Fang Guojun, who was very close to becoming China's first astronaut in 1971, kept the secret of his possible selection to himself and the dream alive for 30 years after the manned space program was aborted.
[China Daily/Peng Kuang]
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One day, his superiors suddenly told him to pack up and head for Beijing. Nobody told him why he was going.
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