2003年10月15日9时,中国第一位航天员杨利伟乘坐“神舟五号”飞船从酒泉卫星发射中心升空,在环绕地球飞行十四圈、历时21小时后,成功地在内蒙古自治区境内着陆。“神舟五号”飞船的首次成功载人航天飞行,实现了中华民族千年的飞天梦想,也使我国成为世界第三个能够自主进行载人航天的国家。 At 0900 on October 15, 2003, the first astronaut in China, Yang Liwei, took off on the “Shenzhou V” spacecraft from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and fourteen laps orbiting the earth lasted 21 hours and successfully flew over Inner Mongolia Autonomous territory of the landing. The first successful manned space flight of the Shenzhou V spacecraft achieved the dream of a thousand years of Chinese nation’s flying airspace and made our country the third country in the world capable of carrying out manned space independently.